SOLUTION: how do you write "the difference between seven times a number and nine more than five times the number" as an algebraic expresson?

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Question 643811: how do you write "the difference between seven times a number and nine more than five times the number" as an algebraic expresson?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
write "the difference between seven times a number and nine more than five
times the number" as an algebraic expression?
:
7x - (5x+9)
remove the bracket and simplify
7x - 5x - 9
2x - 9

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