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Translate the inequality: "The sum of 1 and 3/5 of a number is at most 42" 1 3

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we can write the sum of 1 and 3/5 of a number like this:


1+(3)/(5)x

since we want that this expression be at most 42, this means that it cannot be more than 42, then:


1+(3)/(5)x\le42

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