SOLUTION: chrissy is 25 years older than her dog. the sum of their ages is 37. how old is the dog? i have 37-25= 12 but the answer is 6. What did i miss? thank you.

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Question 382438: chrissy is 25 years older than her dog. the sum of their ages is 37. how old is the dog? i have 37-25= 12 but the answer is 6. What did i miss? thank you.
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Let represent the age of the dog. Then Chrissy has to be . And:



Solve for


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