This is characterized by the symbol <, and is always read from left to right. Example: The phrase Cindy's wages were ______ $50 this week can be written algebraically as E < $50, where E represents Cindy's earnings. Term:
the term is less than. Think about it this way next time, the mouth is open to the bigger number because it wants to eat the bigger number. So the number facing the tail is always less than.
