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Twice the sum of x and 5

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The answer to that is (x+5)2. Twice the sum of x and 5. Sum means addition, and twice the answer of that. So in parenthesis we do (x+5) since sum means addition, then we put a 2 outside the parenthesis, which means times 2. So (x+5) and 2 times the sum of that (x+5)2.
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I believe it would be x+5^2
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