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Moesha's music library has 17 more than two times the number of songs than Damian's music library. Define a variable and write an expression to represent the number of songs in Moesha's music library. Then find the number of songs in Moesha's library if Damian has 5 songs in his library.​

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In solving this problem x will represent Damian’s music library. Moesha’s music library will represented by 2x + 17.

If Damian has 5 songs in his library you will substitute 5 for x in the formula:

2 x 5 + 17=

10 + 17=

27

If Damian has 5 songs Moesha will have 27.

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