The equation y=5x+3y=5x+3 estimates the number of U.S. households, in millions, expected to install devices that receive and manage broadband TV and Internet content to the home, where xx is the number of years after 2007. For what years will there be at least 18 million homes with these devices? Write your answer as an inequality involving xx.

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The equation y=5x+3y=5x+3 estimates the number of U.S. households, in millions, expected to install devices that receive and manage broadband TV and Internet content to the home, where xx is the number of years after 2007. For what years will there be at least 18 million homes with these devices? Write your answer as an inequality involving xx.

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An equation that estimates the number of U.S households in millions expected to install devices is given in the problem. 

y=5x+3 where x is the number of years after 2007.

We have to find at what value of x or at what years the value of y will be atleast 18 million.

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