Question 92234
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.