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300 reduced by 5 times my age is 60

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300 reduced by 5 times my age is 60

Let my age be a. We have:
5 times my age = 5a

300 reduced by 5 times my age means we subtract 5a from 300:
300 - 5a

The word is means an equation, so we set 300 - 5a equal to 60 to get our final algebraic expression:
300 - 5a = 60

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