Question

Amy used her first 2 tokens at Glimmer Arcade to play a game of Roll-and-Score. Then she played her favorite game, Balloon Bouncer, over and over until she ran out of tokens. Balloon Bouncer costs 3 tokens per game, and Amy started with a bucket of 35 game tokens.
Which equation can Amy use to find how many games of Balloon Bouncer, g, she played?
How

Answer 1

Let g be the number of Balloon Bouncer games. Each costs 3 tokens and she spent 2 tokens first, so

3g + 2 = 35.

Solve: 3g = 33, so g = 11.