Question

LaShawn won 71 tokens playing basketball at the county fair. At school, she gave 3 tokens to every student in her math class. She only has 5 tokens remaining.(1 point) Write an equation that can be used to find the total number of students, s, in her math class. $$ How many students were in LaShawn’s math class? students

Answer 1

Let \( s \) represent the number of students in LaShawn's math class. Initially, LaShawn had 71 tokens. She gave away 3 tokens to each student in her class, which means she gave away a total of \( 3s \) tokens.

After giving away the tokens, she had 5 tokens remaining. We can write the following equation to represent this situation:

\[
71 - 3s = 5
\]

Now, we can solve the equation for \( s \):

1. Subtract 5 from both sides:
\[
71 - 5 = 3s
\]
\[
66 = 3s
\]

2. Divide both sides by 3:
\[
s = \frac{66}{3}
\]
\[
s = 22
\]

So, the number of students in LaShawn's math class is \( 22 \).

**Answer:** 22 students.