Jerry had some action figures on a shelf in his room. Later he added w more action figures to the shelf. If there are a total of x action figures on his shelf now How many action figures did he have initially on the shelf?
Jerry had some action figures on a shelf in his room. Later he added more action figures to the shelf. 

This means that there were more action figures on the shelf after Jerry added more. 

We can say that the final number of action figures is greater than the initial number of action figures. 

We can represent this with the following equation: 

x > y 

This means that the value of x (the final number of action figures) is greater than the value of y (the initial number of action figures).