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Question 619534: Byron is 3 years older than doug. The product of their age is 40, how old is Doug?
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Question 620467: 5 times the sum of 5 and r

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Question 620614: Beth's mom is 6 times older than Beth. Beth's dad is 7 years older than Beth's mom. The sum of their ages is 72. How old are each of them?
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Question 620699: six years ago, jim was four times as old as fe. in four years, he would be twice as old as fe. how old are they now?
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Question 620699: six years ago, jim was four times as old as fe. in four years, he would be twice as old as fe. how old are they now?
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Question 620610: Derrick is 5 less than twice as old as Brandon. The sum of their ages is 43. How old are Derrick and Brandon?
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Question 620790: The sum of the ages of the two students is 36. Four years from now the ratio of their will be 4:7. Find their present ages?
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Question 621448: Aji is 16p years old. His daughter is half his age. What will the sum of their ages be in 10 years time? Give your answer in algebraic form.

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Question 621572: Dmitri needs 7 liters of a 24% solution of sulfuric acid for a research project in molecular biology. He has two supplies of sulfuric acid solution: one is an unlimited supply of 28% solution and the other an unlimited supply of the 14% solution. How many liters of each solution should Dmitri use?
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Question 621995: a father is 60 years old and son is half his age how old was the boy when the son was four times his age?

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Question 622177: it takes shawn 18 hours to paint a house. karen can paint the house in 12 hours. how long will it take shawn and karen working together to paint the house?
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Question 622299: f(x)=(1)/(√(4x^2-17x+4))
Find the domain and express in interval notation
info: its 1 over the square root of the numbers listed above
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Question 622328: Irene is two more than thrice her brother's age. Two years ago she was six times older than her brother. Find their ages.
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Question 622402: 1. A is 6 years older than B. In 5 years time their total age is 70. How old are they now? The answer is 33 and 27, but how do you calculate this?
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Question 622296: The formula S=C(1+r)^t models inflation, where C = the value today, R = the annual inflation rate, and S = the inflated value t years from now. Use this formula to solve the following exercise.
Round your answer to the nearest dollar and make sure to include the dollar sign.
If the inflation rate is 5% , how much will a house now worth 780,000$ be worth in 3 years?
ANSWER: .
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Question 622417: How do i solve any word problem related to algebra ?
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Question 622613: Mrs. West is 14 years younger than her aunt. If Mrs. West's age in years is as much below 60 as her aunt's age is over 40. How old is each person?
I know the answer is aunt = 57
And West's = 43
But I don't know HOW they got the answer. Can you show me the steps please?
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Question 622659: tara is eight years younger than her sister anna.
if the sum of their age is 34 how old is tara
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Question 622658: Therese is eight years younger than her sister sian. If the sum of their ages is 34, how old is Therese?
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Question 622702: Three mothers- Malu,Eva and Josie- have between them a total of 14 children, 10 of whom are girls. Eva has no more children than Malu, who has 3 children. Josie has 6 more-girls than boys and the same number of boys as Malu has girls. How many girls each do Josie and Malu have?
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Question 622871: What is yhe answer equation to prove you are not a bot: (2+8)-4+3
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Question 622926: The sum of the ages of two boys is 18. If 4 times the younger boy's age is subtracted from 3 times the older boy's age, the difference is 12. What are the ages of the two boys?
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Question 622976: Paul and his brothers Ted and Al worked out one day that their father was 3 times as old as Ted. Also that, in three years time, he would be three times as old as Paul would be, and that in 6 years time he would be twice as old as Al would be. Al was two years older than Ted.
How old is their father?

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Question 622947: the sum of present age of Abe and her age 7 years ago is 31. What will be her age after 7 years?
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Question 623153: Karlo is now four times as old as Kevin. In 12 years, Karlo will be twice as old as Kevin. How old are Karlo and Kevin?
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Question 623145: The sum of two numbers is 55 and the difference is 9. What are the numbers?
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Question 623145: The sum of two numbers is 55 and the difference is 9. What are the numbers?
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Question 623177: Paul's age is two years more than twice Mark's age. The sum of their ages is 32 years. How old are Paul and Mark?
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Question 623183: Mary is 7 years younger than Jane. In four years'time, Mary will be one year older than half of Jane's age at that time. How old are Mary and Jane now?
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Question 623299: When will the ages 22 and 12 be to 30 years apart
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Question 623351: what is the answer here? twenty-six is equal to thrice a number increased by five.find the number
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Question 623367: if i am 12 and someone has known me since i was 5 i how will i be when they have known me for 90 percent of my life
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Question 623550: danny is 7 years older than his brother. If the product of their ages is 120, find their ages. I have tried the equation n(n+7)=120. This does not make sense, however, since 7 does not divide into 120 evenly.
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Question 623708: Mary is twice as old as Samantha. Bill is four years older than Mary. If Samantha is 7 years old, how old is Bill?
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Question 623714: John, Cindy, and Larry all participate in different sports after school. One day, John told Larry, “My sport is tougher than yours, because we had to run three times as many laps as you did yesterday.” Cindy overheard the conversation and told John, “Well, we ran 5 more laps than you did, so my sport must be the toughest.” If Larry had to run 3 laps in practice, how many laps did Cindy run?
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Question 623798: What is 8,388 divided by 1/3
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Question 623798: What is 8,388 divided by 1/3
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Question 623861: Ana is twice as old as Billy. Billy is three times as old as Candy.If the sum of their ages is 70 how old is Billy
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Question 623978: Tom's age is 5 more than twice Dick's age.
Which expression represents this?
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Question 624092: Amy is 10 years old. John is 2.5 times older than Amy. How old is Amy?
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Question 624146: A man is 35 yrs old and his son 7 yrs now.In how many years will the son be half as old as his father
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Question 624118: A man is four yrs.older than his wife of 5 times as old as his son.when the son was born the age of the wife is 6/7 that of husband age.find the age of his wife
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Question 624174: A father is twice as old as his son and thrice as old as his daughter. If the father is eight years older than the sum of his children's ages, find the age of the daughter?
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Question 624211: A father is now 3 times older than his son.12 years ago he was 6 times as old as his son.Find their present Ages
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