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The students council consists of 32 members. There are 27 members decorating for the dance. How many members are not decorating.

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If there are 32 members total and we know that 27 of them are decorating for the dance, the remaining people must not be decorating. Therefore we take the total 32 and subtract the number of people decorating (27) to figure out how many are NOT decorating. 32 - 27 = 5
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