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Question 280621: John is twice as old as his sister Mary. Mary's age is 1/6 the age of her mother. Their mother is 30. How old are John and Mary?
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Question 280886: ALEX IS 16 YEARS OLD AND HIS SISTER RAMIE IS 5 YEARS OLD. IN HOW MANY YEARS WILL ALEX BE EXACTLY TWICE AS OLD AS RAMIE?
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Question 280956: Mothers age was twice the the age of son two years ago.after how many years will she be three times her sons age?
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Question 281087: Gina is 9 years younger than her sister, Bridgette. Two years ago, Bridgette was twice as old as Gina was. How old is Gina now?
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Question 281442: A couple has nine daughters. The sum of the daughters' ages is 207. The age difference between consecutive daughters is always three years. The age of the middle daughter is:
(A)21 (B) 23 (C) 25 (D) 27 (E) 29
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Question 281515: a man is 5times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be only 3 times as old as his son, find the present age?
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Question 281515: a man is 5times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be only 3 times as old as his son, find the present age?
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Question 281526: each of the sides of an isosceles triangle is three times as long as the third side. If the perimeter of the triangle is 28cm find the length of each side of the triangle
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Question 282528: Joe is twice as old as sam. sam is 3 times as old as paul.The sum of all the ages is 90 years. how old is sam?
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Question 282794: If Bill is 5 years older than his sister Pam, and their age totals 14 then how old is Pam?
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Question 282761: Adam is 6 years older but twice Joe's age. Their total age is 27.
What are Adam and Joe's ages?
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Question 283346: HI HERES MY PROBLEM
My husband Is 4 times older than my daughter now. it 20 years he'll be twice as old.
how old is the father?
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Question 283256: A mother is twice as old as her daughter now, but 10 years ago, she was 3 times as
old as her daughter. Find their ages at present.
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Question 283579: if i'm 8 yrs old and my dad is 7 times my age, how old is he
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Question 182663: A Man's age this year is three times that of his Son. If in 15 years time the Father will be twice as old as his Son, find their present ages.
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Question 284262: Steve is half as old as Stacey. The sum of their ages five years ago was 8. How old are Steve and Stacey now?
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Question 284152: Mother age was twice the the age of son two years ago.after how many years will she be three times her son?
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Question 285610: Jamie is 5 years older than her sister Amy. If the sum of their ages is 19, how old is Jamie?

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Question 285618: Ann is 3 times as old as cousin Bob. Four years from now she will be one year more than twice as old as her cousin Bob will be then. What are their present ages?
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Question 285694: Three times the sum of Jim's and Tom's ages is equal to twelve times the difference of their ages, and three years ago Jim was twice as old as Tom was. How old is Tom now?
The formula I came up with was 3(a+b) = 12(a-b)
Am I on the right track?
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Question 285664: In ten years from now, a father will be twice as old as his son. Ten years ago, he was six times as old. How old are they now?
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Question 285783: Each year on Colin’s birthday (since his first birthday), he celebrates with a birthday cake and the number of candles on the cake is always equal to his age. If he has had a total of 253 candles on his birthday cakes, how old is he?
A.22 B. 20 C. 24 D. 19 E. None of these.

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Question 285950: Could you set up this word problem please? Then I will solve it.
Derek is four times as old as Sarah. Three years ago the sum of their ages was 44. How old is each now?
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Question 285999: Cathy has six pairs of black socks and six pairs of white socks in her drawer.In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair tha match?
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Question 285998: Tom,eighteen years old,is three times as old as his brother.How wil Tom be when he is twice as old as his brother?
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Question 286169: Don't submit the same or similar problems more than once.
This was submitted at least twice within ten minutes.
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Question 286180: Jessica is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Jane was when Jessica was as old as Jane is now.
How old is Jane?
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Question 286003: The age of the father is 3 years more than 3 times the age of son. After 3 years the age of the father will be 10 years more then twice the age of the son. Find their present ages?
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Question 287628: Two years from now, Jorge will be three times as old as Maria is now. in ten yers, Jorge will be four times as old as Maria is now. what are Jorges and Marias current age?
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Question 287596: Hannah, Mark and Tom have a combined age of 68. Hannah is twice as old as the difference between Mark and Tom's age. Mark and Tom's combined age is 16 times
Hannah's age. Mark is older than Tom. How old is Tom?
(a) 31 (b) 32 (c) 33 (d) 34 (e) None of the above

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Question 287779: Mr. Parabol, a mathematics teacher was traveling by bus with his family consisting of his mother,wife,son,and daughter. The bus conductor doubting the son's right to have a half-fare ticket asked, How old is your daughter?Mr.Parabola, irritated at having his honesty questioned,confused the conductor with his answer: my daughter is twice as old as my son. My wife is three times as old as the sum of the ages of my son and daughter, and iam as old as my wife and daughter. My mother whose age is the total of all our ages is now 69. can you help the conductor in finding the age of the girl?
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Question 288305: I noticed that when I interchanged the digits of my father’s age, I got my own age. When I was born, his age was between twenty and thirty years. What was my father’s age when I was born?
(A) 20 (B) 26 (C) 27 (D) 30 (E) None of these
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Question 289400: please explain to me the easy form how to determine some body age buy just knowing the month day and year for example 02/25/57 ? whats the easy answer to figure it out
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Question 1: A father's age is thirteen times that of his son. In 10 years, the son's age will be one-third of his father's. How old are the father and son?
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Question 289680: if 3 times dan's age is decreased by 10 more than twice his age, the result is 22. what is his age?
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Question 289679: if 3 times dan's age is decreased by 10 more than twice his age, the result is 22. what is his age?
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Question 289692: Tamara has 2 sisters. One of the sisters is 7 years older the Tamar. The other sister is 3 years younger then Tamara. The product of her sisters ages is 24. How old is Tamra
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Question 290101: fisher is 6 years older than twice carl's age. if the sum of their ages is 27, how old is each?
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Question 290132: The ages of a father and a son add up to 55. The father's age is the sons age reversed.
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Question 290099: Brett's father is four times as old as Brett is now. In four years, Brett's age will beone-third of his father's age. How old are they now?
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Question 290341: Mr. King is two times as old as his daughter. Ten years ago he lacked 5 years from being three times as old as his daughter was then. Find each of their ages.
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