SOLUTION: Mr. Pinto is a Web designer. He is trying to put 4 characters on a page. The space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1, character 3 takes 7 units less tha

Question 92234: Mr. Pinto is a Web designer. He is trying to put 4 characters on a page. The space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1, character 3 takes 7 units less than the character 2, and character 4 takes the same space as that taken by character 2. Find the total space occupied by all the characters in an algebraic expression.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
trying to put 4 characters on a page.
The space occupied by character 2 takes 5 units more than character 1, character 3 takes 7 units less than the character 2,
and character 4 takes the same space as that taken by character 2.
Find the total space occupied by all the characters in an algebraic expression.
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Let char 1 take x units
Then char 2 takes x+5 units
And char 3 takes x+5-7 = x-2 units
And char 4 takes x+5
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Adding you get 4x+8 units
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Cheers,
Stan H.

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