Python loop function

Question

**ticket practice**Help
So this is the code but i have a realy hard time to comprehend this x variable function
total = 0
x=0
while x<5:
age=int(input())
x=x+1
if age<3 :
continue
total=total+100
print(total)

Answer 1

Your question ?
edit:
is it about what x doing ? Acting like a counter for loop to iterate 5 times.