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Decreasing -5 times a number by 18 is equal to decreasing 9 times the number by 25.

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Answer:

  1/2

Step-by-step explanation:

Perhaps you want to know the number.

Let the number be represented by x.

  -5x -18 = 9x -25

  7 = 14x

  x = 7/14 = 1/2

The number is 1/2.

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