SOLUTION: How do you write two less than a number is -5?
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Question 781738: How do you write two less than a number is -5?
Answer by fcabanski(1391) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"A number" is a variable. Call it x. Is means equal. Something less than means subtract it from the number.
x-2 = -5
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