SOLUTION: If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?

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Question 259618: If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?
Answer by unlockmath(1688) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hello,
Let's have Sue's age be represented as "x".
Leah will then be shown as: x+6
John's age will be: (x+6)+5
Now we can put this into an equation as:
x + x+6 (x+6)+5 = 41 Combine like terms to give us:
3x+17=41 Subtract 17 from both sides to be:
3x=24 Divide both sides by 3 results in:
x=8
Therefore we know Sue is 8 yrs old and Leah is 14 and John is 19. See if it adds up to 41?
RJ
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