Work Shown:
4x - 6 < 30
4x - 6 + 6 < 30 + 6
4x < 36
4x/4 < 36/4
x < 9
Explanation:
The idea is to undo everything happening to x. We follow PEMDAS in reverse. We undo subtraction first by adding 6 to both sides (step 2), then we undo multiplication by dividing both sides by 4 (step 4).