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Letters for unknown numbers

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Learn it A letter like n can stand for a missing number. Use the opposite operation to find it.

Example: $n + 7 = 15$

  1. Think: what plus 7 makes 15?
  2. $15 - 7 = 8$.
  3. $n = 8$.

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