How do you find the equation of a rule

Hector and alex traded video games. alex gave hector one fourth of his video games in exchange for 6 video games. then he sold 3 video games and gave 2 video games to his brother. alex ended up with 16 video games. how many video games did alex have when he started?

Liz had 140 pens and inna had 100 pens. after inna gave liz some pens, liz had 3 times as many pens as inna. how many pens did inna give liz?

How can (square root of 25) ^2 be rewritten?