Hi Student!
Looking at this problem, it's fairly simple and just asks us to determine whether x = 1 is a solution to the expression that was provided. The first step that we must take to solving this is to plug in the value 1 for each of the places that we have x. Then we simplify and look at the final expression and if it evaluates to true than x = 1 is a solution to the expression.
Plug in the values
- [tex]x^3 + 3 \ge 8 - 4[/tex]
- [tex](1)^3 + 3 \ge 8 - 4[/tex]
Simplify both sides
- [tex]1 + 3 \ge 8 - 4[/tex]
Looking at the final expression that is shown, we can see that it states that 4 is greater than or equal to 4 which evaluates to true since 4 is equal to 4. Therefore, x = 1 would be considered a solution of the expression that was provided in this problem.
