A supermarket sells fruit snacks by the box. Each box holds x packages of strawberry snacks and y packages of cherry snacks. Nina bought 6 boxes. Write an expression for how many more strawberry packages than cherry packages Nina bought. Then write what the two expressions being equivalent means in terms of the situation.
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