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A problem states: "There are 5 more girls than boys at the party. There are 27 children at the party in all. How many boys are there at the party?"

Let b represent the number of boys.

Which expression represents the number of girls?




b + 5

b⋅5

b−5

5−b

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Your answer would be b+5
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