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Question 10279: How can you please help me solve this loooooonnnnngggg example question.....please, please please! thank you! :)
Mr. Smith, a mathamethics teacher was travelig 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. Smith, irritated at having 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 my daughter. And I am as old as my wife and my daughter. My Mother whose age is total of all our ages is now 69." Find the age of the daughter.

THANKS A LOT!.................:)

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Question 10751: please help me solve this equation: rs-rt=st-sr, for r ...............
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Question 10788: the sum of Mrs.Black's age and her daughter's age is 56 years. In 8 years, Mrs. Black will be twice as old as her daughter. How old is her daughter now?
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Question 10815: Roz is twice as old as Grace. In 5 years the sum of their ages will be 28. How old are they now?
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Question 10815: Roz is twice as old as Grace. In 5 years the sum of their ages will be 28. How old are they now?
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Question 10814: The sum of the ages of Ira and Sofia is 26. The difference between 4 times Sofia's age and twice Ira's age is 8.
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Question 10946: Joan is 6 years older than his cousin Liza, and the product od their ages is 9 less than 16 times the sum of their ages. How old is each?
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Question 8074:

When Susan and David applied for their marriage license, the first thing they were asked was their ages. With a reluctance to reveal something so important, Susan said that they were both in their twenties. The clerk, however, insisted on more specific information so, David added that they both had the same birthday, and that he was four times as old as Susan was when he was three times as old as Susan was when he was twice as old as Susan was. At this point, the clerk fainted, whereupon the couple snatched up the license, hurried off to the preacher’s, and lived happily ever after. When the clerk came to and realized that he would have to complete his records some way or other he began to do a little figuring, and before long had found out how old the two were.

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Question 11876: The sum of the ages of a father and her daughter is 44 years. The father's age is 4 years more than 3 times the daughter's age. Find the ages of both.
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Question 12059: Vincent is three times as old as his brother and 6 years ago the sum of their ages was equal to Vincent's present age.How old is each?
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Question 12057: Susan is 34 years old and her daughter 10 years. After how many years will she be twice as old as her daughter?

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Question 12057: Susan is 34 years old and her daughter 10 years. After how many years will she be twice as old as her daughter?

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Question 12058: Dorie, 42 years old has a 12 year old nephew, in how many years will the aunt be twice as old as her nephew?

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Question 12056: The sum of the ages of the First year Math. teacher is 50 19 years ago from now.Ms. Santos' age will be twice the age of Ms. Valdez present age. How old are they now?

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Question 12156: Felipe is a teenager who is 10 years older than his sister Irene. In 6 years, Felipe will be twice as old as his sister. How old is Felipe now?
Can you please show us how to set up this equation, and the process to solve it?
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Question 12255: Mr. Jones is 4 years older than his wife and 31 years older than his son. their ages add up to a total of 82 years. Find how old Mr. Jones is and the ages of his wife and son.
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Question 12331: Aunt Alice gave each of her three nieces a number of silver dollars equal to their ages. The youngest felt that this was unfair. They agreed to redistribute the money. The youngest would split half of her silver dollars evenly with the other two sisters. The middle would then give each of the others 4 silver dollars. Finally, the oldest was to split half of her dollars equally between the two younger sisters. After exchanging the money, each girl had 16 silver dollars. How old are the sisters? (Their ages = 48)
MUST HAVE PROCESS
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Question 12424: A father is now 7 times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be 4 times as old as his son will be then. What are their present ages?
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Question 12424: A father is now 7 times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be 4 times as old as his son will be then. What are their present ages?
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Question 12980: Kenneth's age is 5 yrs older than Alvin. Find there present ages if the product of Kenneth's age 4 yrs. from now and Alvin's age 5 yrs. ago is 51.
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Question 13130: when you devide a neg into a neg do you get a positive
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Question 13327: BOB'S FATHER IS 3 TIMES OLD AS BOB. 4 YEARS AGO HE WAS 4 TIMES OLDER. HOW OLD IS BOB?
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Question 13458: Peter is x years old and his sister is5 years older. If the product of their age is 84 form an equation in x and solve it to find Petr's age.

I would really appriciate it if you would assit me in this Thanks.
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Question 13789: X is 6 years younger than Y, and the average of their ages is twice X age 5 years ago, how old are they?
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Question 14281: 3x-10=18-4x
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Question 15213: The sum of Carol's and Sandy's ages is 47. In 10 years Carol will be 10 years older than Sandy was 7 years ago. Find their present ages.
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Question 15582: godfrey is 5 years olderthan mary. write expressions for the following (a) godfrey's age when mary is t years old. (b)mary's age when godfrey is x years old.
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Question 16202: For the school play,Christi sold 5 tickets less than 3 times as many as Puge sold. Ace sold twice as many as Christi.Togrther the three students sold 65 tickets.How many did each one sell?
This is what I got:
Puge=x
Christi=3x-5
Ace=2(3x-5)=65
x+3x-5+2(3x-5)=65
x+3x-5+6x-10=65
10x=65
10x/10=80/10
x=8
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Question 16343: I have a really hard time on getting the formula on word problems. I read them, understand what they are asking, I even get the answer but cannot seem to translate the words on to the paper in a form of a equation.
The problem I am having trouble on is:
"Batman is 20 years older then robin. In 4 years, Batman will be twice Robin age. How old are they now?"
I get..
Robin=x
Batman=20+x(Batman older by 20 years )
Batman=2(20+x)( Batman where he is twice as Robin)
The answer I get is that Batman is 36 right now, and Robin is 16, because in 4 years Batman is going to be 40, and Robin 20, Batman is TWICE Robin's age. 20x2=40...
Please help me in getting Enlgish translated into Algebra equation.

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Question 16484: The joint ages of A and B is 82 years. In 6 years times A will be twice as old as B was 4 years ago. Determine their ages now ??
please help i'm really confused.... THANKS
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Question 16503: tom is 5 more than twice alex's age. How old is he?
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Question 13693: Abbey practices piano each day. Here are the songs she plays and the time it takes to play them
Evening bells 2minutes
scottish dance 1 minute
Air by mozart ½ minute
A. can she play each song ten times in half an hour ?
b.How long she play if she warms up for five minutes and then plays each song six times ?
i'm 3 grade student .
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Question 16961: can you please help with this question...
Joseph is 4 years older than twice his sisters age. In 4 years time he will be 11 years older than here. How old is Joseph now
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Question 17016: Five years ago, Tom was one third as old as his dad was then. In 5 years, Tom will be half as old as his father will be then. Fine their ages now.
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Question 17161: a father is now 24 years older than his son. In 8 years the father will be twice as old as his son will be then. Find there present ages
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Question 17160: a father is now 24 years older than his son. In 8 years the father will be twice as old as his son will be then. Find there present ages
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Question 17897: Jane is twice as old as Tom. In 8 years their ages will total 70. How old is each now?
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Question 18303: I want to know what I need to do to solve this thanks.
Henry is three times as old as Jane. In 3 years Henry will be x years old. In terms of x, how old will Jane be then?
Jane's Age then = ?
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Question 18466: Bill is 1 year less than twice as old as his sister Caroline.
The total of their ages is 26.
How old is Bill now? Please help!
Thanks1
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Question 18536: I am asking this question from memory (Hope it makes sense), ok here it goes:
Shop A has 5 more tools than shop B. Shop B has 3 more tools than shop C. How many tools does shop A have?
Can this be solved, or am I missing something(s)?
Thanks!
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Question 18658: Aaron is twice as old as Jack. The sum of their ages three years ago was 45 years. How old are they now?
My problem is when I get the solution, the ages are backwards.
Now Aaron = 2 Now Jack
(Now Aaron - 3) + (Now Jack -3) = 45
Now Aaron + Now Jack = 51
Now Jack = 51 - Now Aaron
Substitute-
Now Aaron = 2(51 - Now Aaron)
Now Aaron = 51 - 2 now Aaron
3 Now Aaron = 51
Aaron = 17
Jack = 34
But Aaron is supposed to be twice Jacks age not half it.
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Question 18813: You are 6 years older than you sister. She is 4 years older than your brother. Write expressions to show your age and your sister's age, if your brother is 4 years old. Please explain how you found your answer. Thank you.
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Question 18916: Could you please explain how to write this problem in an equation?
Bob is 4 years younger than 3 times Jerry's age. Together their ages add to 32. How old are Bob and Jerry?
My mother figured out that the answer is that Bob is 23 and Jerry is 9 but she did not know how to set it up in algebaic form.
I appreciate your help.
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Question 16994: andy is twice as old as Kate.In 6 years,their ages will total 60.How old is each?
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Question 19311: Brad is 7 more than 2 times as old as Ben. In 23 years the sum of their
ages will be 83. how old is Ben now?

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