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Corporate Budget Model Adjustment
An operations analyst is refining a department's budget model. The current spending baseline is represented by the polynomial . A cost-saving adjustment, represented by the polynomial , must be subtracted from this baseline to find the net expenditure. Based on the standard procedure for polynomial subtraction, state the simplified expression that represents the final net expenditure.
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Corporate Budget Model Adjustment
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