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Merry has twice as many pencils as sue. If X represents the number of pencils Merry has. Write an expression to represent the number of pencils Sue has.
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Merry has twice as many pencils as sue. If X represents the number of pencils Merry has. Write an expression to represent the number of pencils Sue has.

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Let x= Sue x/2. Merry hope this helps
User Yeqing Zhang
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Merry has twice as many pencils, so Sue will have half as many.  Thus, S=X/2, where S is the amount of Sue's pencils.
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