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Question

you download 12 new songs to your MP3 player. then you delete 5 old songs. write each amount as an integer. what is the answer.

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Answer 1

So we will begin by pulling out numbers from the word problem.

[12 songs] then we delete [5 songs].

Now we will use just the numbers as our integers and create a problem we can solve with subtraction.

12-5=?

now we solve and have the full equation.

12-5=7.