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Mr. and Mrs. Romeo own a laundry shop. The have 152 customers this week, 24 fewer than last week. Write an algebraic equation for the number of customers they had last week.

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To translate the given problem:

Let m be the number they had last week.

Translation:

Twenty-four fewer than last week is 152

​ m - 24 = 152

The algbraic equation is:

m - 24 = 152

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