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Miss W8 has X amount of pencils. she needs 7 times more pencils for the end of the year test. then she gives twenty pencils to Mr.T write the expression for the situation

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\begin{gathered} x=\text{ number of pencil she has} \\ 7x=\text{number of pencil she needs for the end of the year test} \\ 20=\text{number of pencil she gave to Mr. T} \\ x+7x-20 \\ 8x-20 \\ \text{The expression for the situation is }8x-20 \end{gathered}

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