Hm.. quite hard to get without the LaTeX...
I'll give one more example.
If
You can subtract 5 from all the three sides to give:
Then, you can divide everywhere by 2 to give:
So that'll be your answer. If you want to make sure that it's the right answer, try out one value of x (eg. 0, 1, or 2) into the initial inequality. You should get the value between 5 and 9 inclusive.
To go further, say you divide by a negative number... like -1
Let's see if that is still good... 0 is less than or equal to -x... but you know that from above, x is between 0 and 2, and if you let x = 1, for example, the equation
is not true! Conversely,
is not true either! What happened? Well, whenever you divide or multiply by a negative number, the > and < signs flip over, like this:
Now, that inequality is valid for the previous solution.