You want to hang a picture on your wall the wall is 20 feet long you want to have at least 3 feet on both sides of the painting for plans to be placed right a quality showing the possible lanes of you being mean

We can consider
x = length of the painting
20 ft wall long
we want at least 3 ft per side so the total available length is 20-6= 14
x must be shorter than 14
inequality
x< 20-2(3)
x<14