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lily and jason each have 60 tokens . Each round lily add 5 of her tokens to the pot and jason add 3 of his tokens to the pot . the game continues either lily or jason runs out of token . which of the follow is true lily has 24 token jason has 24 tokens lily has 36 tokens jason has 36 tokens

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We will have the following:

Since Lilly adds more of her tokens for each round she will end the game faster, and we can also see that the ratio of tokens is:


(60\colon5)=12

So, there will be less than 12 rounds.

We then have:


60-(3\cdot12)=24

So, Jason has 24 tokens. [Option B]

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