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You get in an elevator and go down 7 floors. You exit on the 16th floor. Write and solve an equation to find what floor you got in the elevator.
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You get in an elevator and go down 7 floors. You exit on the 16th floor. Write and solve an equation to find what floor you got in the elevator.

You get in an elevator and go down 7 floors. You exit on the 16th floor. Write and-example-1
User Mark Feltner
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Don't you subtract 16-7=9 idk sorry
User Deeban Babu
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You got in on the 23rd floor.

You could say "Emma got on an elevator on the 23rd floor, she remembered she left her sunglasses as her friends apartment 7 floors down. She got in the elevator and went to the 16th floor, got her sunglasses and then continued with her day"
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