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Office Supply Procurement Formula

A procurement officer is ordering office supplies and needs to calculate the quantity of paper reams required for the quarter. The company’s policy manual defines the quantity as 'fourteen less than 11a{}11a', where aa represents the number of departments in the building. Recalling the mathematical rules for translating English phrases into algebraic expressions, write the expression that represents this quantity.

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