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All right, so we're looking at this box of apples, and we don't know how many apples are in that box, so we're going to set that to be x.
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And then we're told that tom takes out two more than half of the apples.
00:11
So half of the apples would be half of x, and two more than that would be if we added two.
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So this is that the number tom removes.
00:22
So we're going to start with x, and we're going to remove one half of x plus two, and that's going to simplify to be one half of x minus two.
00:34
So one half of x minus two is the number left for linda.
00:45
So what i'm going to do is i'm going to call this l just for a second.
00:50
That's the number left for linda.
00:51
Linda is going to take two fewer than half of the remaining apples.
01:01
So she's going to take half of x minus two from her.
01:09
But it's not x.
01:11
It's half of linda's apples minus two.
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So that's what she's going to take from this.
01:16
So linda's apples minus one half of linda's apples minus two.
01:21
So if we replace one half x minus two in here for l, one half x minus two minus one half of one half x.
01:31
Minus 2 minus 2...