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Represent the following sentence as an algebraic expression, where "a number" is the letter x.A number is subtracted from 2 .

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In general, the statement 'a is subtracted from b' is written as


b-a

Therefore, 'A number is subtracted from 2' is written as,


2-x

The answer is 2-x

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