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The average age of Donald, his wife and their two children is 23 years. His
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document.write( ">>...The average age of Donald, his wife and their two children is 23\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let Donald's age = x\r\n" );
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document.write( ">>...His wife is just 4 years younger than Donald himself...<<\r\n" );
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document.write( "His wife's age = Donald's age - 4 = x-4\r\n" );
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document.write( ">>...his wife was 24 yrs old when his daughter was born...<<\r\n" );
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document.write( "So his daughter is 24 years younger than his wife, so we get the\r\n" );
document.write( "daughter's age by subtracting 24 years from the wife's age of x-4\r\n" );
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document.write( "daughter's age = mother's age minus 24 = \r\n" );
document.write( "x-4 - 24 which simplifies to x-28\r\n" );
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document.write( ">>...He was 32 yrs old when his son was born...<<\r\n" );
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document.write( "So his son is 32 years younger than Donald, so we get the son's \r\n" );
document.write( "age by subtracting 32 years from Donald's age of x.\r\n" );
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document.write( "son's age = Donald's age minus 32 = x-32\r\n" );
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document.write( ">>...The average age of Donald, his wife and their two children is 23 years...<<\r\n" );
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document.write( "If add up all their ages and divide by 4 we get 23, so\r\n" );
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document.write( "(Donald's age + Wife's age + daughters age + son's age) divided by\r\n" );
document.write( "4 equals 23:\r\n" );
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document.write( "x + x-4 + x-28 + x-32\r\n" );
document.write( "--------------------- = 23        \r\n" );
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document.write( "              4x - 64\r\n" );
document.write( "              ------- = 23\r\n" );
document.write( "                 4\r\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply both sides by 4\r\n" );
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document.write( "              4x - 64 = 92\r\n" );
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document.write( "add 64 to both sides \r\n" );
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document.write( "                   4x = 156\r\n" );
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document.write( "divide both sides by 4\r\n" );
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document.write( "                    x = 39\r\n" );
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document.write( "So Donald's age is 39\r\n" );
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document.write( "Donald's wife's age is x-4 or 39-4 or 35.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Their daughter's age is x-28 or 39-28 or 11\r\n" );
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document.write( "Their son's age is x-32 or 39-32 or 7\r\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore the average of Donald's and his daughter's ages is\r\n" );
document.write( "found by adding their ages and dividing by 2:\r\n" );
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document.write( "39 + 11    50\r\n" );
document.write( "------- = ---- = 25\r\n" );
document.write( "  2        2\r\n" );
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