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1.1 Exercise 86

Avg difficulty 2.5

Translate the phrases into algebraic expressions.

Greg has nickels and pennies in his pocket. The number of pennies is seven less than three times the number of nickels. Let n represent the number of nickels. Write an expression for the number of pennies.

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