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I don't really understand what your question means, but we'll go through the complete step of solving linear inequalties.

For example, x - 3 < 5. What is x?

Well, we must isolate 'x' on one side. We do it like we do with an equalty.

x - 3 + 3 < 5 + 3 -->> x < 8

There we have it, the solution!

Of course, inequalties aren't exactly like equalties, either. Take this for instance:

-x < 5

We need to isolate x, so here we go: x < -5. Oops, we messed up somewhere!

It turns out, that if you take the equation and multiply or divide by a negative number, we get to reverse the inequalty sign. Therefore, the answer is: x > -5. There we go.

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