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Question 357043: please help me answer this question:
a flare is launched from a life raft with an initial velocity of 80 meters per second. how many seconds will it take for the flare to return the sea?
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Question 357124: If the sum of ages of three friends is 126.The ratio of ages of John and Maria is 4:3 and that of John and Linda is 5:7.Find the age of John?
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Question 357125: If the sum of ages of three friends is 126.The ratio of ages of John and Maria is 4:3 and that of John and Linda is 5:7.Find the age of John?
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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
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Question 357520: Sally is ten years younger than Mary. Ten years ago, Sally was half as old as Mary was then. Find their present ages.
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Question 357656: Matthew is 3 times as old as Jenny. In 7 years, he will be twice as old as she will be then. How old is each now?
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Question 357656: Matthew is 3 times as old as Jenny. In 7 years, he will be twice as old as she will be then. How old is each now?
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Question 357557: sally is ten years younger than mary. ten years ago, sally was half as old as mary was then. find their present ages
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Question 357811: The mean age of a class of 25 students is 23.8 years. How old would a 26th student have to be for the mean age of the class to be 24.5 years?

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Question 357847: The ratio between the ages of two pwrsons is 6:5 and sum of there ages is 77 then how many years later there ratio becomes 8:7
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Question 358304: Robert is 3 times as older as his son; but 14 years ago he was 10 times as older as his son. Find the age of his son.
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Question 358324: Martha is 2/3 of sarahs age,their combined age is 15, how old is each girl
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Question 358332: Fifteen years from now Mr. Thomas will be twice as old as Mrs. Thomas is now; whereas Mrs. Thomas will then be as old as Mr. Thomas will be 10 years from now. How old are Mr. and Mrs. Thomas now
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Question 358625: Equal amounts are invested in two accounts paying 4% and 5% interest annually. If one year's combined interest income is $324, how much is invested in each account?

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Question 358623: Equal amounts are invested in two accounts paying 4% and 5% interest annually. If one year's combined interest income is $324, how much is invested in each account?

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Question 358786: merisaa is 2 years old her father is 16 times her age & how many years will he be twice is age
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Question 358886: a boy is 5 years older than his sister. write a variable

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Question 358886: a boy is 5 years older than his sister. write a variable

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Question 358922: A man age is 4 times the combine age of his 2 son one of whom is 3 times as old as the other in 24 years their combine ages will be in 12 years less than their father age. what are their age.
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Question 358918: A father is 24 years older than is son in 7 years the son age will be 2/5 of his father. What are their present age.

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Question 358977: A mother is seven times as old as her daughter, in five years time she will be four times as old as her daughter. How old are they now?
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Question 359136: Joan's age was a factor of her grandfather's age for 6 consectutive years. What were her grandfather's ages during this time?

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Question 359169: Rodney is 3 times as old as his sister. A year ago he was 4 times as old. How old are Rodney and his sister now?

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Question 359368: nancy is 10 years older than lisa.in two years she will be twice as old as lisa. find their present ages.

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Question 359900: Don is 21 years older than Betty. In 6 years Don will be twice as old as Betty. How old are they now?
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Question 359904: Bill is 8 times older than Sally the difference in their ages is 7 years; how old is Bill and how old is Sally
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Question 359939: the length of a retangle is 3 cm more than twice the width. if the perimeter is 84 cm find the dimensions
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Question 359943: A man is now 3 times older than his son and was 30 when his son was born. How old is his son??
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Question 360020: Louise is four times as old as Maria. However, 6 years from now she will be only three times as old as Maria. Find their ages.
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Question 360112: okay Mrs. Brook lacks 7 years from being five times as old as her son. Six years from now she will lack 3 years from being three times as old as her son is then. Find each of the numbers
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Question 360265: Jill's age next year will be twice Ann's age last year. Their present ages total 54. How old are they now?
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Question 360273: The present age of a man is 3 times that of his son. 6 years ago, the age of the man was 4 times that of his son. Find the ratio of their ages 6 years later.
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Question 360286: Your uncle walks in, jingling the coins in his pocket. He grins at you and tells you that you can have all the coins if you can figure out how many of each kind of coin he is carrying. The twenty-six coins in his pocket are all dollars and quarters, and they add up to seventeen dollars in value. How many of each coin does he have?
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Question 360355: If_the_sum_of_the_ages_of_a_girl_and_her_brother_is_26_years.3_years_ago_her_age_was_4_times_the_age_of_her_brotherFindout_the_ages_of_girl_and_brother
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Question 360431: when tim started football 3 years ago, his coach was twice his age. currently tim's coach is 10 years older than him how old is tim now please help thank you
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Question 360617: This word problem is really bugging me can you solve it?
A father is now 20 years older than his son. In 8 years the father will be 5 years more than twice the sons age. Find their present age
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Question 360618: I need to know how to write this equation in order to find the answer.
If I am 48 and my grandson is 2 years old how old, in years, will I be when I am 3 times his age. I thought that I would just multiply by 3 but the professor said we do not do that to figure out the problem. I thought that maybe I would be 54 and he would be 16 but then it just did not look right. So I tried again and what I got today was I would be 60 and he would b3 4. I am so lost with this problem.
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Question 360645: Raju is 19yrs younger than his cousin. After 5 yrs their ages will be the ratio 2:3. Find their ages
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Question 360677: The length of a rectangle is 3cm less thanes the width. The peremiter is 114cm. Find the width.
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Question 361258: Mike is 15 times Bill's age. If the difference in their age is 28, how old is Mike
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Question 361316: how do you enter square root on computer
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Question 361316: how do you enter square root on computer
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Question 361557: My sister is 10 years older than i am. the sum of are ages is 28. find are ages
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Question 361752: At Mr. Vid's Video Rentals you can join his Vid Club for a monthly membership fee of $30.00. Club members pay only $.85 to rent each movie. If you are not a member of the Vid Club, the movies rent for $2.25 each. How many videos would you have to rent each moth to make a membership worth the investment?
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Question 361787: a grandfather is 5 times as old as his granddaughter. in 6 years, he will be 4 times as old as his granddaughter will be. find their present ages.
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