This is an inequality.
This is what the statement should look like:

Now, you can actually "properly" reverse these meaning the equality sign changes too. So basically you can mirror them.
The "mirrored" inequality expression would look like this:

Now just like normal algebra, you can transpose these terms from 1 side to another and so, -8 would transpose to the right hand side and the operation would be the inverse or in this case, addition. The expression would look something like this:

Add them up and you get:
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