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Question 201720: sue is now seven times old as louise. in six years sue will be five time as old as louise. find the present age of each one.
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Question 201804: the father's age 10 years ago was 35 years more than twice his son's age. After how many years from now will the father be
(i) twice his son's age?
(ii) thrice his son's age?
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Question 201881: 2 years ago a man's age was 3 times the square of his son's age .3 years hence his age will be 4 times his son's age .find their present ages
please help me to solve this problem
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Question 201941: �I am four times as old as you were when I was the same age as you are now. I am forty years old, how old are you?�
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Question 201940: �I am four times as old as you were when I was the same age as you are now. I am forty years old, how old are you?�
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Question 202024: I can't understand what does it mean!
Mrs Brown, who is 51 years old, has a daughter 21 years old. How long will it be before mother is twice as old as her daughter
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Question 202132: 1.Ben is 3 years younger than Dan. The sum of their ages is 53. How old is each?
Please if you can explain how to solve age problems it can help too thanks in advance.
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Question 202141: What is the answer in (2x+5)(4x+5)?
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Question 202168: Sally Rogers, an employee of Advanced Ideas, Inc. has a gross salary of $45,000 per year. Her company will match employee 401K contributions up to 5% of the gross salary.
Due to personal financial constraints, Sally is only able to put 2% of her salary into her 401K during her first two years. However, after receiving a 3.5% raise at the end of her first year and a 4.0% raise at the end of her second year, she is able to increase her 401K contribution to 5% at the beginning of her third year.
a. Execute the research necessary to understand the basic structure of a 401K plan. Write a 2 to 3 paragraph summary of your findings.
b. How much did Advanced Ideas, Inc. put into Sally�s 401K in her first two years?
c. How much will Sally contribute to her own 401K
during her third year?

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Question 202218: A corporate software development firm has a staff of online support technicians available 24 hours a day. They advertise that one of the advantages of using their company is that the ratio of accounts-to-support technicians is 5:1.
This year they have eight technicians on staff and each technician is fully saturated with accounts.
a. How many accounts does the company support at this time?
b. The company is projecting a 20% growth each year for the next four years. How many technicians should the company�s Human Resource Manager plan to hire in each of the next four years?

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Question 202361: what is the answer to this question.
ayie is 8 year older than icas. the sum of their ages is 32. how old is each now.
pls show the solution thank you!!!

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Question 202360: . What value of y is associated with the following values of x?
(a) x = 2
(b) x = 3
(c) x = -2

Answer:

Show your work:

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Question 202384: A standarduzes test has a mean score of 100 and a standard deviation of 15.
a. what percentage of people score between 70 and 85 ?
b. what percentage of people score between 100 and 115?
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Question 202434: In 7 years, maria will be 4 times as old as angelica will be then. The sum of their ages now is 71. How old will each of them be in 5 years?
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Question 202734: If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?

can you please show all steps. Thank you very much..
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Question 203237: Pedro will be as old as Juan is now, the difference between their ages is 6 years. Find the age of each now.
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Question 203238: I am three times as old as you were when I was as old as you are now. When you got to be my age together our ages will be 84. How old are we now?
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Question 203513: Ricardo is 4 years less than twice as old as his sister. The sum of their ages is 20. How old is Ricardo?
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Question 203512: a cyclist traveled at at rate of 32 mph to visit a nearby town. The cyclist averaged 10 mph on the return trip. If the trip took 6.3 hours, find the distance to the nearby town.
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Question 203653: Bob Hope was born 2 years after Clark
Gable and 2 years before Henry Fonda (Doubleday
Almanac). In 1951, after all three of them had their
Birthdays, the sum of their ages was 144. In what year were they born?

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Question 203819: A Father is 25 years old.At present,he will be 7 years older 3 times his son.What is the age of each?

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Question 204493: Jack said, "five times my age in 2yrs is 100, how old is jack now?
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Question 204547: Mike's age is 3/4 of Mary's age. In 5 yrs, Mike's age will be 7/9 Mary's age. How old is Mike now?
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Question 204520: Need help urgent!
Fourteen years ago, Jun was twice as old as Charlie. the sum of their ages now is 40. What are their present ages?
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Question 204654: ANN'SAGE IS 7/10TH OF BILL'S AGE. IN 4 YEARS ANN'S AGE WILL BE 8/11THS OF BILL'S AGE. HOW OLD IS BILL?
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Question 204654: ANN'SAGE IS 7/10TH OF BILL'S AGE. IN 4 YEARS ANN'S AGE WILL BE 8/11THS OF BILL'S AGE. HOW OLD IS BILL?
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Question 204731: Dorothy is 6 years older than Ricardo. The product of their present ages is twice what the product of their ages was 6 years ago. How old is Dorothy?
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Question 204706: ten years ago a man was 3 times as old as his son. in 6 years, he will be twice as old as his son. how old are they now?
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Question 205036: THE PERIMETER OF A BASKETBALL COURT IS 78 METERS AND THE LENGTH IS 6 METERS LONGER THAN TWICE THE WIDTH. WHAT ARE THE LENGTH AND WIDTH?
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Question 205069: karen is twice as old as marie.four years from now,the sum of their ages will be 44.how old is karen?
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Question 205069: karen is twice as old as marie.four years from now,the sum of their ages will be 44.how old is karen?
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Question 205077: When Gary and Rowena were married, Rowena was two years younger than Gary. How old was Gary on his wedding day if sixteen years before his wedding he was twice as old as Rowena was the?
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Question 205213: riza is 25 when her first son was born,today the sum of their ages is 105.how old is riza and her son now?
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Question 205244: Dorothy is 6 years older than Ricardo. The product of their present ages is twice what the product of their ages was 6 years ago. How old is Dorothy?
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Question 205459: The sum of John's age and Jorge's age is 56. Ten years ago John was twice as old as Jorge. How old is Jorge now?
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Question 205623: the difference between the ages of two sisters today is 3x. 6 years hence the ratio of their ages will be 7:6. what is the age of each sister today?
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Question 205779: The sum of 3 times Gary's age and 5 times Tom's age is 150. Tom is 9 years less than twice as old as Gary is. How old is Tom?
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Question 205801: The sum of john's age and Jorge's age is 56. Ten years ago John was twice as old as Jorge. How old is Jorge now?
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Question 205841: Mary's age and Bob's age are in the ration 3:2. Eight years later, the ratio of their ages will be 4:3. Find their present ages.
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Question 205935: How can I solve this? pls. help!
Marie is twelve years older than her brother Ben. Four years from now, Ben will be two-thirds as old as Marie. How old is Ben now?
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Question 206091: The sum of the ages of a couple is 60. In eight years, husband's age will be five years less than two times the wife's age seven years ago. Find their present ages.
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Question 206130: Ruth is twice as old as Pat. In 4 years, Ruth will be three times as old as Pat was 3 years ago. How old is each now?
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Question 206194: In 3 years Alex is 3 times older than Kit. A year ago Alex is 7 times older than Kit. How old are they now?
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Question 206338: Dot and her cousin have a combined age of 24 years, 3 years ago, dot was exactly twice as old as her cousin. How old is dot now?
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