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Invoice Reconciliation: Equation Simplification

A billing specialist is reconciling a vendor invoice using the equation $9x - 5 - 8x - 6 = 7.Accordingtothestandardsimplificationprocedureforcombiningliketermsontheleftside,whatistheresultingsimplifiedequationthatthespecialistshouldobtainbeforeproceedingtosolvefor. According to the standard simplification procedure for combining like terms on the left side, what is the resulting simplified equation that the specialist should obtain before proceeding to solve for x$?

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