Question

Nelson Mandela was a South African politician known for fighting racism and inequality. He was president of South Africa until he stepped down in the year 1999. Let xxx represent any year. Write an inequality in terms of x and 1999 that is true only for values of x that represent years after the year that Nelson Mandela stepped down from his presidency.

Answer 1

X > 1999

Explanation:

Nelson Mandela was president until ,1999, we want an inequality that represents the years after 1999.

Since x, represents years, we wan x, to be greater than 1999.

We want our inequality to read x > 1999.

Answer 2

The inequality is
`x>1999.`

Explanation:

Given:

Nelson Mandela was a South African politician known for fighting racism and inequality. He was president of South Africa until he stepped down in the year 1999. Let x represent any year.

Now, to write an inequality in terms of x and 1999 that is true only for values of x that represent years after the year that Nelson Mandela stepped down from his presidency.

Let
`x` represent any year.

Nelson Mandela was president until he stepped down in the year 1999.

According to question:

`x` that represent years after the year that Nelson Mandela stepped down from his presidency.

Thus:

`x>1999.`

As,
`x` represent any year after 1999.

So,
`x` is greater than 1999.

Therefore, the inequality is
`x>1999.`