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)

Question

Write an equation that can be used to find the total number of students, s, in her math class.

$$s+=

Answer 1

LaShawn started with 71 tokens and gave 3 tokens to each student in her math class. After giving away the tokens, she had 5 tokens remaining.

Let's represent the total number of students as \( s \). The equation that represents this situation can be set up as follows:

1. She gave away \( 3s \) tokens to the students.
2. After giving away these tokens, she had 5 tokens left.

We can write the equation as:

\[ 71 - 3s = 5 \]

This equation can be used to solve for \( s \), the number of students in her math class.