document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=506566>Question 506566</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Professor Haber’s wife is 6 years younger than her husband.  One day after working on a mathematical formula, he remarked to her, “did you know, June that we’ve been married 22 years, and since our marriage our combined ages have exactly doubled?”<BR>\n" );
document.write( "How old were they when they were married?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " One day after working on a mathematical formula, he remarked to her, “did you know, June that we’ve been married 22 years, and since our marriage our combined ages have exactly doubled?”<BR>\n" );
document.write( "How old were they when they were married?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let h = Prof H's age<BR>\n" );
document.write( "let w = his wife's age<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "write an equation for each statement':<BR>\n" );
document.write( "\"Professor Haber’s wife is 6 years younger than her husband.\"<BR>\n" );
document.write( "w = h - 6<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"we’ve been married 22 years, and since our marriage our combined ages have exactly doubled?”<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2[(w-22)+(h-22)] = (w + h)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2(w+h-44) = w + h<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2w + 2h - 88 = w + h<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2w - w + 2h - h = 88<BR>\n" );
document.write( "w + h = 88<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Replace w with (h-6)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "h - 6 + h = 88<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2h = 88 + 6<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2h = 94<BR>\n" );
document.write( "h = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=94%2F2 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"94%2F2\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" ><BR>\n" );
document.write( "h = 47 yrs old is Prof H's age<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "47 - 6 = 41 yrs old is wife's age<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "47 - 22 = 25 yrs old when prof married<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "41 - 22 = 19 yrs when wife married<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "See if that works<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2(25+19) = 44 twice their sum at marriage<BR>\n" );
document.write( "47 + 41 = 88 present sum of their ages<BR>\n" );
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