SOLUTION: Hi, I found the answer to this by guessing and checking, but please help me by giving me an equation using variables to solve this. This is what I got by guessing and checking: Rh

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Question 1126189: Hi, I found the answer to this by guessing and checking, but please help me by giving me an equation using variables to solve this.
This is what I got by guessing and checking: Rhonda-43 Dawn- 13
Rhonda is 30 years older than her daughter Dawn. In two years, Rhonda will be three times as old as Dawn. How old are they now?

Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
r Rhonda
d Dawn






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Answer by ikleyn(52787)   (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.

Read them and become an expert in solving age problems.

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    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

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