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Seven less than a third of the sum of a number and two.Make sure it's an expression

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Let's use the variable x to represent the missing number.

The sum of a number and two is "x + 2".

A third of this sum is "(x + 2)/3"

Seven less than that is "(x + 2)/3 - 7"

So the final expression is:


(1)/(3)(x+2)-7

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