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Translating Retail Bonus Formulas

A department store supervisor is setting up an automated spreadsheet to calculate employee performance bonuses. According to the company's regional policy, the bonus amount (in dollars) is determined as "18{}18 less than 8x{}8x", where xx represents the number of new customer accounts the employee opens.

Write the algebraic expression that represents this bonus, and explain the mathematical rule for translating the phrase "less than" that determines the order of the terms in your expression.

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