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North Carolina has 12 less electoral votes than Florida. Write and solve a subtraction equation to find the number of electoral votes for Florida

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Answer: Let's use "x" to represent the number of electoral votes in Florida. Then, we can write the equation for North Carolina's number of electoral votes as "x - 12".

The equation can then be written as:

x + (x - 12) = total number of electoral votes

Solving for x, we get:

2x - 12 = total number of electoral votes

2x =total number of electoral votes + 12

2x = total number of electoral votes + 12

x = (total number of electoral votes + 12)/2

So, the number of electoral votes for Florida is (total number of electoral votes + 12)/2.

Note: The total number of electoral votes for both states needs to be known in order to solve for the number of electoral votes in Florida.

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