Another for solving for x but much harder

There were 816 people at a concert when a band started to play. after each song, only half the people stayed to hear the next song. how many people were left at the concert after x songs? write a function to represent this scenario.

The suare root of 9x plus 7 plus the square rot of 2x equall to 7

Tim's phone service charges $26.39 plus an additional $0.21 for each text message sent per month. if tim's phone bill was $31.64, which equation could be used to find how many text messages, x, tim sent last month?