Juan has c cheesecakes. Clarence has 5 less than 3 times as many cheesecakes as Juan has and Darlene has 2 more than half as many cheesecakes as Clarence has. Find an expression in terms of for the total number of cheesecakes Juan, Clarence, and Darlene have.
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We can express the number of cheesecakes people have in terms of x. Let the number of cheesecakes Juan has be x.
Thus, Clarence has 3x-5 cheesecakes. Darlene has 1/2(3x-5)+2.
Therefore, we can simply combine these expressions. x+3x-5+3x/2-5/2+2=11x/2 -11/2
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