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18 May, 07:26

Marcel and Floyd are playing games at an arcade. Marcel has $8.25 and is only playing $0.25 games. Floyd has $9.75 and is only playing $0.75 games. Jorge wants to find the number of games after which Marcel and Floyd will have the same amount of money remaining. Jorge's work is shown below.

Let x = the number of games played.

Jorge knows his answer is incorrect because it does not make sense to have a negative number of games. What is Jorge's error?

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  1. 18 May, 08:37
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    B.) From Step 1 to Step 2, Jorge did not add 0.25x correctly to both sides.

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