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
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:
and
We solve the first inequality to get
We now put the two inequalities together to get a compound inequality:
Now, if you want to include 0 as a natural number, you then have