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Meg is 20 years younger than Phillip. In three years phillp will be twice as old as Meg will be. How old is each now?
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Question 1106255: I am working on an age problem this is the question:
Meg is 20 years younger than Phillip. In three years phillp will be twice as old as Meg will be. How old is each now?
I know the let statement and all, but i am confused on how to set up the equation when it says in tree years or twice as old.
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Meg is 20 years younger than Phillip. In three years phillp will be twice as old as Meg will be. How old is each now?
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In 3 years, he's 2x her age and 20 years older.
--> 20 & 40 in 3 years.
--> 17 & 37 now.
No setup or equation needed.
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Answer by ikleyn(52809) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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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
- Age problems for mental solution
in this site.
They are written SPECIALLY for YOU.
Read them and become acquainted with 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".
Save the link to this online textbook together with its description
Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson
to your archive and use it when it is needed.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
m, Meg
p, Phillip
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