Some leaaves are on the ground. The children pick up 9 leaves. Then there are three leaves on the ground. How many leaves were on the ground at the start.

James is playing his favorite game at the arcade. after playing the game 3 times, he has 8 tokens remaining. he initially had 20 tokens, and the game costs the same number of tokens each time. the number t of tokens james has is a function of g, the number of games he plays. write the function’s formula? t=