document.write( "Question 556871: A girl asks her mother's age and is told, \"Six years ago I was nine times your age. Now I am only three times your age.\" What are the present ages of the girl and her mother?
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g=girl m=mom
\n" ); document.write( " $\"m-6=9%28g-6%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"m=3g\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"3g-6=9g-54\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"-6=6g-54\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"48=6g\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"8=g\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"m=3%288%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"m=24\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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