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Forming equations with two variables

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Problem

A herd of dinosaurs made paintings in the sand with their claws.
Each baby dinosaur made 15 paintings and each adult dinosaur made 7 paintings. The entire herd made 208 paintings in total.
There were b baby dinosaurs and a adult dinosaurs.
Express b in terms of a.
b=