Question

A video rental store charges $4 to rent a movie and $3 to rent a video game. During one summer, Tony paid a total of $140 to rent movies and video games from this store. If he rented 7 more video games than movies, how much did he spend on movie rentals during the summer?

Answer 1

the answer is 68

if you like at the other persons answer, they explain

but all i know is that its 68

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Answer 2

Let's make the number of movie rentals "x" and the amount of video game rentals x+7 and if movies cost $4 and video games costs $3, then the equation would be:
4x + 3(x+7) = 140
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4x + 3x + 21 = 140
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7x + 21 = 140
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7x=119
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x=17

So the number of movie rentals would be 17 and you multiply it by 4 and you will get 68.

The answer is A. $68