Question

Janie and Jasmine are playing three games at an arcade. Each of the games requires either 2, 3, or 4 tokens. The girls plan to play as many games as they can before running out of tokens. Let m represent the number of games that require 2 tokens; n represent the number of games that require 3 tokens; and p represent the number of games that require 4 tokens.
Janie plays the 3-token game four times. Write two equivalent expressions to represent the number of tokens that Janie will need to play each of the three games at least one time.

Answer 1

Answer: 1.They will need 18 tokens each because 2 + 3 + 4 x 2 = 9

2. -12

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