Question

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?

Show your work. ​

Answer 1

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.