Keyshawn has a gift card with a $150 balance. He buys several video games that cost $35 each. After the purchases, his gift card balance is $45. Write an equation to help find out how many video games Keyshawn bought.

what specifically are you asking how you would justify? Are you asking how to justify the original equation? If so, how much you spend + your new balance = original balance. Consider if you spent x dollars, your new balance is 10 dollars and your original balance was 15 dollars. Then x + 10 = 15 which means you spent x= 15 - 10 = 5 dollars. With this problem he spent 35 dollars per game so the total he spent is 35x. Since his new balance is 45 and his original balance was 150, then 35x + 45 = 150

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