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In a city, the distance between the library and the police station is 3 miles less than twice the distance between the
police station and the fire station. The distance between the library and the police station is 5 miles. How far apart
are the police station and the fire station?
1 mile
3 miles
4 miles
ОО
6 miles

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Answer:

so the distance between the police and the library is 2x-3 where x is the distance between the police and fire and distance between the library and fire is 5 so

2x-3=5

2x=8

x=4

so C

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