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Translating Cash Register Audit Rules

As a newly promoted assistant manager at a retail store, you are writing a training guide for new cashiers on cash-drawer reconciliation procedures. The store's policy states: 'The number of dimes in the register must be three more than seven times the number of nickels (nn).'

In a brief memo to a new cashier, explain how to translate this policy rule into a single, self-contained algebraic expression for the number of dimes. In your explanation, you must explicitly recall and cover the following:

  1. Identify the algebraic term that represents the phrase 'seven times the number of nickels' (using the variable nn for nickels).
  2. Explain which mathematical operation corresponds to the phrase 'three more than.'
  3. Write the final algebraic expression that represents the total number of dimes.

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