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A forest is made up of maple trees and oak trees. The number of oak trees is two less than four times the number of maple trees. Let m represent the number of maple trees. Write the expression that gives the number of oak trees in the forest

User Farhad Sakhaei
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Answer:

4m-2

Explanation:

4m-2

4 times the number of maple trees and subtracting 2 afterwards due to wording order.

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