In the figure below, the surface of a modern football is made of 20 white hexagons and \(x\) black pentagons, where each pentagon is surrounded by 5 hexagons and each hexagon is surrounded by 3 pentagons.

For the football pattern shown, exactly one pentagon and two hexagons meet at every vertex.
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