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What is the expression for "the difference between five times a number and twice that number"?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Difference is another word for subtraction. For your number, let's use X. So to start, you have the difference between 5 times X and 2 times X Or, the difference between 5X and 2X Since difference means subtraction, we just need to subtract 2X from 5X now 5X-2X

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