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Question 1046906: Your friends age is 5 years less than 1/2 her mothers age . Your friend is 15 years old . How old is her mother
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Question 1046900: Eight years ago,Manny was three times as old as Ronnie.Now he is only twice as old as Ronnie.Find their ages.
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Question 1046900: Eight years ago,Manny was three times as old as Ronnie.Now he is only twice as old as Ronnie.Find their ages.
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Question 1046941: Paul will be 20 years old in 3 years. His sister will be 5 years older in 2 years. How old is paul's sister now?

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Question 1046941: Paul will be 20 years old in 3 years. His sister will be 5 years older in 2 years. How old is paul's sister now?

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Question 1046969: one-third of charlie's age, added to his present age,
gives the same result at two-thirds of his present age,
increased by 14. how old is he now?

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Question 1046970: Bob is twice as old as Chuck and Susie is 10 years younger than Bob is the sum of their ages is 100 years, how old is susie
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Question 1046970: Bob is twice as old as Chuck and Susie is 10 years younger than Bob is the sum of their ages is 100 years, how old is susie
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Question 1046975: Sipho is 6 years older than Betty. In 3 years time
Sipho will be twice as old as Betty. How old is Sipho
now?

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Question 1046975: Sipho is 6 years older than Betty. In 3 years time
Sipho will be twice as old as Betty. How old is Sipho
now?

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Question 1046992: John is 28 years older than his son. In two years he will be five times older than his son. How old are both of them now?
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Question 1047014:
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Question 1047041: Brian is 4 years older than Michelle. Five years ago the sum of their ages was 48. How old are they now?
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Question 1047041: Brian is 4 years older than Michelle. Five years ago the sum of their ages was 48. How old are they now?
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Question 1047133: A plane has a cruising speed of 150 mph when there's no wind at this speed of the plane flew 300 miles with the wind in the same amount of time if you 200 miles against the wind find the speed of the wind.
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Question 1047023: Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has no monthly fee but charges $0.12 for each minute of calls. The second plan has $18 monthly fee and charges an additional $0.08 for each minute of calls. For how many minutes of calls will the costs of the two plans be equal?
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Question 1047182: yolanda will rent a car for the weekend. She can choose one of two plans. The first plan has an initial fee of $70 and costs and costs and additional $0.30 per mile driven. The second plane has no initial fee but costs $0.80 per mile driven. How many miles would Yolanda need to drive for the two plans to cost the same?
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Question 1047197: Pete's coffee shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type a coffee cost Pete $4.65 per pound and type B coffee cost five dollars .95 cents per pound this month Pete made 179 pounds of the blend for a total cost of $955.85 how many pounds of type a coffee did he use
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Question 1047196: Hey small publishing company is planning to publish a new book. The production costs will include one time fix cost (such as editing) and variable costs (such as printing). One time fixed cost total $15,210. The variable cost will be $11 per book. The publisher will sell the finished product to bookstores at a price of $18.50 per book. How many books must the publisher produce and sell so that the production cost will equal the money from sales?
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Question 1047277: My sister is 2 years older than I am. The sum of our ages is 20. Find our ages
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Question 1047324: Four years from now, Malia will be 3 times as old as Allison is then. The sum of their ages is 2 more than 5 times Allison's age now.
What are the starting equations?
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Question 1047325: I have money, nothing I Amol from Rs 1000 and renewable by Rs 500, and the total Rs 1500 I have to give 300 Rs market was booked for 100 and then gave it to him before to 100 rupees and was taken edition 1000 Rs renewable 400 and Amol At 900 400 1300 and 300 in 1300 and 300 in 1600 to market was where I came to Rs 100 and Rs 1500"

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Question 1047445: A passenger train traveled 100 miles in the same amount of time it took a fright train to travel 80 miles. The rate of the freight was 5 miles per hour slower than the rate of the passenger train. Find the rate of the passenger train
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Question 1047466: Eight years ago, Elliott was half as old as George. Ten years from now, Elliott will be four-fifths as old as George. How old is each of them now?
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Question 1047556: Sam is 87 years younger than Karen. 6 years ago, Karen's age was 4 times Sam's age. How old is Sam now
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Question 1047569: A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the following riddle to a gossip columnist: "Eight years ago, I was fifteen times as old as my daughter. Now I am seven times as old as she is." How old is the movie star?
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Question 1047572: Six years ago a women was 9 times the age of her niece. She is now 3 times the age of her niece . how old are they?
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Question 1047585: Five years ago, Amy was 20 years younger than her father, this year she will be half her fathers age. How old is Amy?
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Question 1047444: a web music store offers two versions of a popular song. the size of the standard version is 2.2 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.9 MB. yesterday, there were 890 downloads of the song, for a total download size of 2714 MB. How many downloads of the high-quality version were there?
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Question 1047607: Adam's father is 49 years old. He is 5 years more than 4 times Adam's age. How old is Adam?
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Question 1047612: Jordan is three years older than mark. Two years ago, jordan was twice as old as mark. How old are they now
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Question 1047602: Kareem swam 5km against the current in the same amount of time that it took him to swim 15km with the current. The rate of the current was 2km per hour. how fast would Kareem swim if there was no current?
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Question 1047605: At the city museum, child admission is $6.50 and adult admission is $9.80. On Sunday. Twice as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $652.50. How many child tickets were sold that day?
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Question 1047610: three years ago Tom was twice as old as Jean, and in two years the sum of their ages will be 28 years. Find the present ages?
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Question 1047653: Kathy is six years older than her cat. Next year she will be twice as old as her cat will be. How old is Kathy now?
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Question 1047653: Kathy is six years older than her cat. Next year she will be twice as old as her cat will be. How old is Kathy now?
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Question 1047653: Kathy is six years older than her cat. Next year she will be twice as old as her cat will be. How old is Kathy now?
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Question 1047674: Help me, I am able to do age algebra problems, but this one confuses me. I have tried to solve it, but I know the answer won't be identity:
Find three consecutive odd integers where the sum of the first and second is equal to six less than twice the third integer.
x+x+2=2(x+4)-6
2x+2=2x+8-6
2x+2=2x+2
2=2
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Question 1047850: Alan is 2 times older than Bob. Carlos is 5 years older than Bob. The total of their ages is 45. How old is each person??
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Question 1047862: Abigail is older than Ben but younger than Carlos. Ben is older than David. Write their names in order from oldest to youngest.
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Question 1047860: Jade is 14 years old. She is twice as old as her brother Justin. How old is Justin?
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