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If a man is three times a woman's age when married but in twenty-one years will only be twice her age..how old are the man and the woman?
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\n" ); document.write( "m = 3w
\n" ); document.write( "m+21 = 2(w+21)
\n" ); document.write( "m + 21 = 2w + 42
\n" ); document.write( "m = 2w + 21
\n" ); document.write( "3w = 2w + 21
\n" ); document.write( "w = 21
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\n" ); document.write( "At marriage, w = 21, m = 63
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