We will traduce the sentences into equations.
Let x be the number of hours in the first job, and y be the number of hours in the second job.
Then the equations are:

The above system has many solution, we can select for example:
x = 1, y = 16. So we can work one hour at the first job and 16 hour at the second job.
For this case we have the following expression:

From here, we must clear the value of a.
We then have the following steps:
Place the terms that depend on a on the same side of the equation:

Do common factor "a":

Clear the value of "a" by dividing the factor within the parenthesis:

Answer:
The clear expression for "a" is given by:

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<u>EXPLANATION</u>
The given compound inequality is

We need to simplify this inequality so that we can obtain x standing alone between the inequality signs.
We add 6 through out the inequality.

This simplifies to:

We now divide through by -3 and reverse the inequality sign.

We now simplify to get:
