The product of a number b and 3 is no less than 12. A number b is just written as b. So we have: The product of b and 3 is no less than 12. take this in parts: The product of b and 3: 3b The phrase is no less than means an inequality, so we have greater than or equal to. We set 3b greater than or equal to 12 3b >= 12
