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Question 253788: Angel is twice as old as Gavin. In three years, Angel will be 13 years than twice as old as Gavin. Find thier ages now
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Question 253773: Linda is now x years old and Don is 2 years older than Linda. In terms of x, how old was Don 3 years ago?
(A) x (B) x – 1 (C) x – 3 (D) x – 5 (E) 2x – 3
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Question 253886: Ron = 1/2 the age of Sam. Sam is 3 times the age of Ted. The sum equals 55. How old is Ron?
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Question 253939: a mother who is 40 years old has a 10 year old daughter. In how many years will the mother be three times as old as the daughter?
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Question 253939: a mother who is 40 years old has a 10 year old daughter. In how many years will the mother be three times as old as the daughter?
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Question 254097: Vincent is 10 years older than John Paul.Five years ago,his age was twice that of John Paul.Find their present age.
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Question 254357: If Ruth is twice as old as Pat and in four years Ruth will be three times as old as Pat was three years ago, how old is each woman now?
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Question 254906: A British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the amount of heat required to raise
one (1) pound of water one (1) degree Fahrenheit. How many BTU’s
would be required to raise 45 pounds of water 18 degrees Fahrenheit?
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Question 255078: A child is 1/3 the age of the older sibling. The sum of their ages is 16. How old is the younger child?
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Question 255234: the sum of 3 consecutive odd integers is -45.find the #

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Question 255270: Pat and Chris have the same birthday. Pat is twice as old as Chris was when Pat was as old as Chris is now. If Pat is now 24 years old, how old is Chris?

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Question 255430: dave is three times older than Jim, and Jim is half Bill's age. If their average age is 64, what is Jim's age?
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Question 255433: There are 5 people standing in a room. Rick is 5 times the age of Mike who is half the age of Larry. Ed is 30 years younger than double Larry and Mike's combined ages. Daniel is 79 years younger than Rick. The sum of their ages is 271. How old is Daniel?
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Question 255432: Jay's favorite book is 182 pages less than 3 times Mitchel's favorite book. If both books have the same number of pages, how many pages are in Jay's favorite book?
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Question 255769: write an equation for the sentence: Lisa is five years older than her sister and the sum of their ages is 19
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Question 255884: write an equation for the sentences: One number is five times another and the sum of the two numbers is 28
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Question 256641: I am 1,708,646,400 seconds old (today, January 13, 2010). When is my birthday?......I'm fairly certain my teacher doesn't want specifics about the hours, minutes, and seconds. I have an answer, so please help me verify!
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Question 256726: Kate is three years less than twice as old as her brother Brett. Next year Bretts age will be three forths Kates age. How old are each?

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Question 256762: I need help putting this word problem into algabreic formula. "7 years ago I was 11 times older than my daughter, now I am 4 times older than her, how old am I?
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Question 255774: write an equation for the sentences: One number is five times another and the sum of the two numbers is 28
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Question 256879: Nathan has two brothers, Conner and Josh. If we add 2 to conners age, it is exactly 1/2 the age of their older brother josh who is 12, How old is Conner?
That question then leads into this one: How many years will it be until Conner's age is half of josh's age.

I know the answers to both (4 on both) but can not figure out how to write it into an equation. PLEASE help :)
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Question 256878: If father’s age is 5 times that of son at present, and after 4 yrs sum of father’s age and son’s age is 44, what is the present age of son?
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Question 256904: joe has three children. The product of their ages is 36 and the sum of their ages is 21.What are the ages of Joe's children?
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Question 257161: I am 61 and my niece is 6. Given this information, how do I write the following alegrabic equation? How old in years will each of us be when I am 3 times as old as my niece?
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Question 257187: Mary was 4 times as old as Ann 10 years ago.if she is now twice as old as Ann, how old is mary
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Question 257380: Eva is 6 years older than his brother, Elvin. In 4 years, Eva will be 26 more than one-half of Elvin's age. How old are they now?
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Question 257380: Eva is 6 years older than his brother, Elvin. In 4 years, Eva will be 26 more than one-half of Elvin's age. How old are they now?
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Question 257374: Eva is 6 years older than his brother, Elvin. In 4 years, Eva will be 26 more than 1/2 of Elvin's age. How old are they now?
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Question 257428: A man born in the year x^2 will be 89 in the year (x + 1)^2 . In what year was he
born?
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Question 257635: Mary's age is twice Fred's age and one-third of Sally's age. If the sum of their ages is 99,how old are the three friends ?
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Question 257611: Augustus de Morgan wrote in 1864, "At some point in my life, the square of my age was the same as the year." When was he born?
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Question 257629: Pat and Chris have the same birthday. Pat is twice as old as Chris was when Pat was as old as Chris is now. If Pat is now 24 years old, how old is Chris?
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Question 257852: 'I am 5 years older than my son, when I was his age. In 5 years, the sum of our ages will be 45. How old am I presently, and how old is my son presently?'
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Question 257930: Tom is 12 years older than Bob is now In 3 years,Tom will be twice Bob's age. How old is Bob now?
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Question 258086: Will's Father is five times as old as Will now. Two years ago, he was 7 times as old as will was then. How old is each now
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Question 258086: Will's Father is five times as old as Will now. Two years ago, he was 7 times as old as will was then. How old is each now
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Question 257908: 5 years ago, Brian was twice as old as John.If Brian is 7 Years older than John, how old was Brian 9 years ago?
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Question 258321: Mr. Reyes is 25 years older than his son. How old are the father and the son if Mr. Reyes is5 more than thrice as old as his son?

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Question 258359: A WOMAN IS 4 TIMES OLDER THEN HER DAUGHTER, IN 18 YEARS THE WOMAN WILL BE TWICE THE DAUGHTERS AGE, WHAT ARE THE CURRANT AGES OF THE MOTHER AND THE DAUGHTER?
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Question 258374: I am four years older than my cousins brother jack. If the sum of our ages is 30, how old is each person?
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Question 258631: a father is four times as old as his son. in twenty years he will be twice as old. how old are they now?
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Question 258779: Solve this problem by using a two order system.
John is 5 years older than Mary. In 10 years, twice John's age decreased by Mary's age is 35, and John's age will be twice Mary's current age. Find their ages now.
John is years old ?, and Mary is ? years old.

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Question 259030: A father is 32 years older than his daughter.In 4 years, the father will be 5 times as old as his daughter. Fid their present ages?
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Question 259406: Jose is 3 times his sister, Anne. The sum of their ages together is 28. What are Jose's and Anne's age?
Now i tried solving it.. i put the equation like (j+a=28) but then it would be no solution. There was also 3a=j
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Question 259513: Mike and Jay are brothers. Mike is 33. This is 3 times as old as Jay was when Mike was the age that Jay is today.
How old is Jay?

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