SOLUTION: If your uncle is 2 years older than 3 times your age, how old is he?

Question 1004941: If your uncle is 2 years older than 3 times your age, how old is he?
Found 2 solutions by fractalier, addingup:
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
All depends how old you are...take your age, multiply it times three and then add two...
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The way you wrote it the problem has no meaningful solution.
You say: Uncle= 2+3*your age. Look what happens, you can make it just about anything you want:
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You:10, Uncle: 2+3(10)= 32
You:11, Uncle: 2+3(11)= 35
You:12, Uncle: 2+3(12)= 38
etcetera
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You are missing a key piece of information, an equality to balance the equation. that's what equation means, it comes from equal. Check your problem and resubmit it.
J
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