SOLUTION: Jolie uses 2 tomatoes every day to prepare her salad. If n equals the number of tomatoes Jolie had before she made her salad and c equals the number of tomatoes left after the sala

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Question 1141882: Jolie uses 2 tomatoes every day to prepare her salad. If n equals the number of tomatoes Jolie had before she made her salad and c equals the number of tomatoes left after the salad is made, which equation represents the number of tomatoes Jolie has after she made her salad?
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n equals the number of tomatoes before she makes her salad.
c equals the number of tomatoes after she makes her salad.
she uses 2 tomatoes to make her salad.

the number of tomatoes left after she makes her salad is 2 less than the number of tomatoes she had before she makes her salad.

your equation is c = n - 2