SOLUTION: you have 30 tokens for playing video games and pinball. it costs 3 tokens to play a video game and 2 tokens to play pinball. you want to play an equal number of video games and pin

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Question 517413: you have 30 tokens for playing video games and pinball. it costs 3 tokens to play a video game and 2 tokens to play pinball. you want to play an equal number of video games and pinball games. use an algebraic model to find how many games of each you can play
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Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let represent the number of video games. Let represent the number of pinball games. Since we want the number of each to be equal:



Since video games cost 3 and pinball costs 2 and we have 30 total:



Substitute in place of (or vice versa if you like) and then solve the single variable equation.

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Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let a = number of video games played
Let b = number of pinball games played
given:
+3a+%2B+2b+=+30+
+a+=+b+
+3a+%2B+2a+=+30+
+5a+=+30+
+a+=+6+
You can play 6 video games
and 6 pinball games