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The product of a number and 1.5 is less than the absolute value of the difference between 20 and 5. What are all the possible values of the number?

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The product of a number and 1.5 is less than the absolute value of the difference-example-1
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Answer:

any value less than 10

Explanation:

Let x represent the number.

1.5x < |20 -5|

1.5x < 15 . . . . simplify

x < 10 . . . . . . divide by 1.5

The number may be any value less than 10.

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