SOLUTION: Tim is 5 years older than twice Mel's if m equals Tim's age write an expression to represent Tim's age.

Question 781490: Tim is 5 years older than twice Mel's if m equals Tim's age write an expression to represent Tim's age.
Answer by swincher4391(1107) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When assigning variables make the letter you choose something that makes sense. For instance, let's let "t" represent Tim's age, and likewise let "m" represent Mel's age. I think this is the way you meant to represent it in the question. With that said, we can represent twice Mel's age as 2m, and 5 years older than that would be 2m+5. We say that Tim's age is equal to this expression, and another way we represent Tim's age is "t".
Thus t = 2m + 5.
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