SOLUTION: If joys age now is 3 times her age 14 years ago how old is she?

Question 1073769: If joys age now is 3 times her age 14 years ago how old is she?
Answer by ikleyn(52858) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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J = 3(J-14),

J = 3J - 42,

-2J = - 42,

J = 21.

Answer. Joys is 21 year old now.

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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