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Translating Verbal Guidelines in Budget Reporting
An office supervisor is preparing a budget report and reads a guideline stating that the number of desk chairs to order for the new department must be "eleven more than ", where represents the number of current team members.
Write a brief explanation of how the supervisor should translate this verbal guideline into a mathematical expression. In your response, make sure to:
- Identify the key phrase in "eleven more than " that signals the mathematical operation.
- State the mathematical operation signaled by that phrase.
- Write the final algebraic expression that represents the total number of desk chairs to order.
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