Our number sentence has the phrase "less than" which means we have an inequality.

" is less than " can be written as because we replace the words "less than " with the less than symbol.

To solve this problem we need to use the distributive property. This property is used to multiply a term outside of a set of parentheses by each of the terms in the parentheses.

Now we have

This expression is simplified because we cannot add to because has a variable attached to it.