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Substract the expressions:(9x+7)-(x+3)

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\begin{gathered} (9x+7)-(x+3) \\ 9x+7-x-3 \\ (9x-x)+7-3 \\ 8x+4 \end{gathered}

To solve this we can apply the distributive property to (x+3), then group the similar terms and solve.

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