Alicia cashed her paycheck and used half of her earnings to take three friends to dinner. she spent $42.15 on dinner and she brought more than $20.00 home. write an inequality to represent the situation, using x to represent the amount of alicia's paycheck

Follow these steps using the algebra tiles to solve the equation −5x + (−2) = −2x + 4. 1. add 5 positive x-tiles to both sides and create zero pairs. 2. add 4 negative unit tiles to both sides and create zero pairs. 3. divide the unit tiles evenly among the x-tiles. x =