Colby is making a home video consisting of a 5-minute introduction followed by several short skits. each skit is 6 minutes long. if colby's video is 101 minutes long, how many skits are in his video?

The answer is: There are a total of 16 skits in the video.

From the statement, we know that the total length of the video is 101 minutes and it contains a 5-minute introduction, the rest of the minutes are short skits (which are 6 minutes long each one).

So, we need to write the following equations:

First equation:

Second equation:

Where,

So, replacing and substituting the second equation into the first equation we have:

So, there are a total of 16 skits in the video.

Let's prove it substituting "n" into the first equation:

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