The surface of a modern football is made of \(20\) white hexagons and \(x\) black pentagons, where each pentagon is surrounded by \(5\) hexagons.

Editorial clarification of the intended football pattern: each hexagon borders exactly three pentagons, and exactly one pentagon and two hexagons meet at every vertex.
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