SOLUTION: John is currently 7 years older than paul. in two years time john will be twice pauls age. construct a suitable table and equation to find johns age.Can you help me construct both
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Question 759238: John is currently 7 years older than paul. in two years time john will be twice pauls age. construct a suitable table and equation to find johns age.Can you help me construct both the Table and the equation?
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
let paul's age be x, then we have the following
then john's age is x+7, now in 2 years
(x+7)+2 = 2*(x+2)
x+9 = 2x+4
x = 5
paul's age is 5 and john's age is 12
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