Technically nothing times 3 get you 16 but 3 times 5 equals 15 which is the closest answer but the answer would be 5.3
For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables.
We have then:
x: initial amount of cards
We now write the equation that models the problem:


Therefore, the initial amount of cards is 300
Answer:
Latoya had 300 cards at the beginning