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.

Answer 1

To find the total number of students, \( s \), in LaShawn's math class, we can set up the following equation based on the information given:

LaShawn starts with 71 tokens and gives out 3 tokens to each student. After giving out these tokens, she has 5 tokens remaining.

The equation can be written as:

\[ 71 - 3s = 5 \]

Here, \( 3s \) represents the total number of tokens LaShawn gives to her classmates. In this equation, we will solve for \( s \), the number of students.