you can do anything to an equation as long as you do it to both sides for inequalities, when multiplying or dividing both sides by a negative, flip the sign
1/3(-5x-3)<14 times both sides by 3/1 -5x-3<14 add 3 to both sides -5x<17 divide both sides by -5 flip sign [tex]x<\frac{-17}{5}[/tex]
