Asked by Alexis

You have a deck of t trading cards. You give 15 cards to a friend and have 8 left for yourself. How many cards were in the original​ deck? Write a​ simpler, equivalent equation to solve tminus15equals8 and find the number of cards in the deck.
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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Start with t − 15 = 8. Add 15 to both sides: t = 8 + 15 = 23.

There were 23 trading cards in the deck.