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Ted is playing a game of snap. So far he has put down 5 cards leaving him holding 7. Write an equation for this, using n for the number of cards Ted had at the start of the game . Solve it to get n.

User Yuriy Vorobyov
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the equation is

n=5+7,

and the number of cards at the start is

n=12

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