SOLUTION: Tim is 5 years older than twice Mel's if m equals Tim's age write an expression to represent Tim's age.

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Question 781490: Tim is 5 years older than twice Mel's if m equals Tim's age write an expression to represent Tim's age.
Answer by swincher4391(1107) About Me  (Show Source):
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When assigning variables make the letter you choose something that makes sense. For instance, let's let "t" represent Tim's age, and likewise let "m" represent Mel's age. I think this is the way you meant to represent it in the question. With that said, we can represent twice Mel's age as 2m, and 5 years older than that would be 2m+5. We say that Tim's age is equal to this expression, and another way we represent Tim's age is "t".
Thus t = 2m + 5.