'<' means smaller than...so what you said is x is smaller than 5000 which means you didn't exceed 5000 which is what the question is asking for.
To represent the fact that you cannot exceed 5,000 while making a product, you can use the inequality "x < 5000". In this inequality, the variable "x" represents the quantity of the product being made. The "<" symbol means "less than," indicating that the quantity "x" should be less than 5000. If "x" exceeds 5,000, the inequality would be false, meaning you have exceeded the limit.
