SOLUTION: The age of a person is 8 years more than thrice the age of the sum of his two grandsons who were twins.. After 8 years his age will be 10 years more than twice of the sum of the ag

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Question 1036689: The age of a person is 8 years more than thrice the age of the sum of his two grandsons who were twins.. After 8 years his age will be 10 years more than twice of the sum of the ages of his grandsons... Find the age of the person when twins were born...
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The age of a person is 8 years more than thrice the age of the sum of his two grandsons who were twins.. After 8 years his age will be 10 years more than twice of the sum of the ages of his grandsons... Find the age of the person when twins were born... 
Twins are 13 each

Person is 86, so person was: highlight_green%28matrix%281%2C4%2C+86+-+13%2C+or%2C+73%2C+years-old%29%29 when the twins were born

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