How do you solve #30 x<200# when # x# is a natural number?

1 Answer
Dec 5, 2017

Depending on your definition of a natural number, you can have
#0<x<20/3# or #0<=x<20/3#

Explanation:

Now, it depends on whether you think that 0 is a natural number or not.(I was taught that it isn't, but there are discussions about this. We will deal with this at the very end).

Assuming you meant that 0 isn't a natural number, we have:

#30x<200#
and
#x>0#

We solve the first inequality to get #x<20/3#

We now put the two inequalities together to get a compound inequality:
#0<x<20/3#
Now, if you want to include 0 as a natural number, you then have
#0<=x<20/3#