SOLUTION: Papa John is 50 years old. His age is 2 years more than 3 times the age of Jimmy John. How old is Jimmy?
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Question 610942: Papa John is 50 years old. His age is 2 years more than 3 times the age of Jimmy John. How old is Jimmy?
Answer by radh(108) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's write this mathematically. Age will be described by x.
Papa John is 50 years old (=50). His age is 2 years more (+2) than 3 times (3x) the age of Jimmy John.
So, it'd look like: .
Now, we simplify: to .
So, we get that Jimmy's age is 16 years.
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