SOLUTION: KAREN IS THREE TIMES AS OLD AS AS SHE WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO. HOW OLD IS SHE NOW?
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Question 226580: KAREN IS THREE TIMES AS OLD AS AS SHE WAS EIGHT YEARS AGO. HOW OLD IS SHE NOW?
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Let 
represent Karen's age now. Eight years ago she would have been 
years old.
Her age now () is (meaning =) three times as old as she was eight years ago, ()
), so write:
)
Solve for .
John
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