SOLUTION: Mary is 2 years older than Ed, and 3 years ago Mary was twice as old as Ed. Find their present ages.
The man is 38 years old, and his daughter is 14 years old. How many years wi
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Question 1089852: Mary is 2 years older than Ed, and 3 years ago Mary was twice as old as Ed. Find their present ages.
The man is 38 years old, and his daughter is 14 years old. How many years will it be before the man's age is just twice that of his daughter?
Hazel is three times as old as Joel, and in 4 years she will be twice as old as Joel. How old was Hazel when Joel was born ?
Doris is 3 years older than her sister and in 2 years her age will be three times what her sister's age was last year. Find their present ages.
A mother is 30 years older than her twin daughters. In 2 years her age will be three times the combined ages of the twins. How old are the twins right now ?
A man has two daughters, one three times as old as the other. The man is five times as old as his older daughter and in 5 years he will be five times as old as the younger. Find their present ages.
Answer by ikleyn(52790) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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For your info:
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There is a bunch of lessons on age word problems
- Age problems and their solutions
- A fresh formulation of a traditional age problem
- Really intricate age word problem
- Selected age word problems from the archive
in this site.
Read them and become an expert in solving age problems.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Age word problems".
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