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An accounting clerk is auditing a payroll formula represented by the equation $9x - 5 - 8x - 6 = 7.Toverifyiftheadjustmentvalue. To verify if the adjustment value x = 18isthecorrectsolution,theclerksubstitutes18foreachinstanceofis the correct solution, the clerk substitutes 18 for each instance ofx in the equation. If the left side simplifies to 7, resulting in the true statement $7 = 7, the solution x=18x = 18 is confirmed as correct.

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