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Lavania is studying the growth of a population of fruit flies in her laboratory. After 6 days, she has nine more than five as many fruit flies as when she began the study. If she observes 20 fruit flies on the first day of the study, write and evaluate an expression to find the population of fruit flies Lavania observed after 6 days.

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The expression would be x=9+5(20)
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User Mayur Dhingra
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The expression would be x = 9 + 5(20)
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