SOLUTION: jason is 12 years older then than ted. next year jason will be 3 times as old as ted. how old is ted

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Question 357236: jason is 12 years older then than ted. next year jason will be 3 times as old as ted. how old is ted
Answer by neatmath(302)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let Jason's age be J and Ted's age be T. Then we are given

and then



So we use substitution:









Thus, we know that





So Jason is 17, and Ted is 5.

I hope this helps!
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