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Question 425383: a family consists of 4 children, a set of triplets and jogn who is 6 years younger.t he combined age of all the children is 54. find johns age/ Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! a family consists of 4 children, a set of triplets and john who is 6 years younger. the combined age of all the children is 54. find johns age/
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Let each of the triplets be x yrs. old.
John's age: x-6 yrs old.
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Equation:
x + x + x + (x-6) = 54
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4x = 60
x = 15
x-6 = 9 (John's age)
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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