SOLUTION: tom is 8 years old. sidd is 5 years younger than tom .how old is sidd?

SOLUTION: tom is 8 years old. sidd is 5 years younger than tom .how old is sidd?

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Question 315484: tom is 8 years old. sidd is 5 years younger than tom .how old is sidd?
Answer by moshiz08(60) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Tom is eight years old, so .
Sid is 5 years younger than Tom. Younger means that his age is smaller, so we subtract: .
But we already know that T=8, so we can substitute that into our equation to get , so Sid is 3 years old.
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