SOLUTION: Martina is currently 14 years older than her cousin joey. in 5 years she will be 3 times as old as joey. If you let x represent joey's current age, what expression can you use to r

Question 1008484: Martina is currently 14 years older than her cousin joey. in 5 years she will be 3 times as old as joey. If you let x represent joey's current age, what expression can you use to represent martina's current age?
Based on your answer, what expression represents joey's age in 5 years? What expression represents Martina's age?
What equation can you write based on the information given?
What is joey's current age? What is Martina's current age?
Answer by algebra hello(55) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
DUE TO SOME PROBLEM PLUS SIGN IIS NOT VISIBLE SO I TAKE HELP OF NEGATIVE SIGN ,SO UNDRESTAND IT Let Joey's current age= x and Martina's current age= y then according to question y=x-(-14) & y-(-5)=3(x-(-5)) on solving these equations we get x=2,y=16
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