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Mark and Bonnie are each getting ready for the start of the school year. Mark has four fewer pencils than Bonnie. Let m represent the number of Mark's pencils. Write an expression for the number of Bonnie's pencils.

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Answer:

x-4

Explanation:

because mark has 4 fewer, let x represent the number of pencils mark has.

because this is an expression, there is no equals sign :)

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