It’s an inequality. In this question it’s stating g+8 is smaller than 2 meaning that the maximum value of g is (negative) -6.1 or -(61/10) recurring but it depends what year you are in as higher year use inequalities with a less than or equal to sign or more than or equal to sign and this problem has no equal to sign if your in a lower year the answer may be just be -7 so the answer is a whole number (hope this helps)
