Question

Paul traded 13 baseball card to Dan for 4 new packs of 6 cards each. Paul lost 3 cards. He now has 75 cards. How many cards did Paul have to begin with?

Answer 1

The number of cards Paul had at the beginning was 64 cards

Explanation:

Here we have a word problem as follows

Paul traded 13 baseball card to Dan for 4 new packs of 6 card each

Number of cards received from Dan = 6 × 4 = 24

Number of cards traded to Dan = 13

Net number of cards traded = 24 - 13 = 11

Total number of cards Paul now has = 75 cards

Therefore since Paul gained 11 cards to make his total number of cards = 75, then;

The initial amount of cards Paul had = 75 - 11 = 64 cards.