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Question 1100584: frank is older than beth. the sum of their age is 23 and the difference is 7. find frank and beths age
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Question 1100601: Ally is 8 years older than Dan.
Dan is half Ken's age.
All their ages add up to 44.
What are their ages?

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Question 1100601: Ally is 8 years older than Dan.
Dan is half Ken's age.
All their ages add up to 44.
What are their ages?

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Question 1100626: Willard Van Winkle (distant cousin of Rip) woke up slowly and looked around. "These things don't exist," he said, "wait a minute. ..." Suddenly a voice said, "No, wait 6,000,000 minutes!" And so it was - Willard had in fact been asleep for 6,000,000 minutes, having fallen asleep on January 1, 1990 at 8 PM. What time did Willard wake up?
I have tried to solve the problem, but it was so hard implying the leap years and the calculation of the date. If someone could solve this for me, it would mean everything.
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Question 1100668: David is 11 years old. His sister is 6 years younger and twice his age, Which number sentence could be used to find her age?
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Question 1100685: Bob is 26 years older then his mom and there age together is 50. How old is bobs mom?
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Question 979689: Sanjay is nine times the age of his son, Anand. In five years time he will be four time the age of Anand. How old are they now
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Question 1100859: i'm older than my sister. 15 years ago her age was 1/3 of what my age is now. 10 years ago my age was twice what her age was 15 years ago. what is my age today?
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Question 1100896: Mr. Mathew and Mr. Mitchell were competing on the game show Jeopardy.
With two categories remaining in Round 2, Mr. Mathew had -$2400, which was
twice as much as Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell, however, swept the �Green
Machine History� category by answering the $400, $800, $1200, $1600 and
$2000 questions correctly. Mr. Mathew kept things close by answering correctly
the $400, $800, $1200, and $2000 questions in the last category of �Classic Movie Quotes�.
If Mr. Mathew loses $400 in Final Jeopardy, how much does Mr. Mitchell have to win to beat Mr. Mathew?
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Question 1101006: The average temperature of the first three days of a week is 27 degree and of the next three days is 29degree .If the average of whole of the week is 28.5 degree the temperature of the last day of the week is?
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Question 1101090: A corner shop has an equal number of 600 mL and 1 liter cartons of milk, and double that number of 2 liter bottles if milk. If there are 84 L of milk in total, how many 600 mL cartons does the shop have?
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Question 1101101: Bruce collects stamps. He has six times as many 10-cent stamps as 5-cent stamps, and he has some 20 cent stamps as well. Bruce has 72 stamps with a total value of $8.40. How many of each stamp does he have?
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Question 1101088: Edward makes his own lolly bags to give away at a party. He mixes jelly fruit costing $9 per kilogram and chocolate buttons costing $12 per kilogram. How many kilograms if each lolly does Edward mix if he produces 15 kg of lolly bags costing $11.20 per kilogram?
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Question 1101089: Three years ago, Evan was one third of his sister's age. In a year's time, Evan's age doubled will match his sister's age. How old is Evan now?
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Question 1101087: When Amanda was born, her mother was 27 years old. Amanda is now one quarter of her mother's age. How old is Amanda now?

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Question 1101102: Four years ago, Adrian was one quarter of his brother's age. In two years' time, his age doubled will equal his brother's age. How old is Adrian now?
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Question 1101121: A father is three times as old as his son .Six years ago he was five times as old as his son.How old are they now?
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Question 1101123: Please help me solve this problem:
A father and son are 50 years old and 20 years old, respectively.
Find the ratio of the the father's age to the son's age, when:
a. Then the son was 10 years old? How old was the father?
b. The the father was 35 years old? How old was the son?
c. The son will be 40 years old? How old will be the father?
d. The father will be 75 years old? How old will be the son?
Thank you very much.
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Question 1101128: If a man has parents with average age 70 years, three children with 15 years average age, Both him and wife with average age 40 years, whats the average age of the family?
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Question 1101244: Hi i cant solv this math, can you help me.
Su- lin is four years older than mark. Twice Su- lins age plus five times marks ages is equel to 64. what are the ages of Su- Lin and Mark?
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Question 1101302: Eugene spent $14 on a magazine and some candy bars.If the magazine cost $6 and each candy bar cost $2 then how many candy bars did he buy?
I need help setting it up I did:
6+2x=14
-6. -6
2x=8
2. 2
X=8
but I don�t know if it right

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Question 1101303: Janet spent half of her weekly allowance playing mini-golf. To earn more money her parents let her wash the car for $9.What is her weekly allowance if she ended with $15
I need help setting it up I tried doing
X+9=15
But I don�t know if it�s correct
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Question 1101298: Joe is three years younger than Mike. Fred is four years younger than Mike. The sum of their ages is 29. How old is each person?
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Question 1101310: Sammy's mom is 2 years more than 3 times as old as Sammy their combined age is 42 how old are Sammy's mother and Sammy
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Question 1101295: Jasmine is 23 years old. Jamie is 3 years less than half of George�s age.Write and solve an equation to find George�s age.
I don�t know how to set it up i tried doing
X-3=23
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Question 1101343: Mr. Abu is now three times as old as his son Kofi. if the sum of their ages 8 years ago was 48, find the boy's present age.

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Question 1101343: Mr. Abu is now three times as old as his son Kofi. if the sum of their ages 8 years ago was 48, find the boy's present age.

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Question 1101343: Mr. Abu is now three times as old as his son Kofi. if the sum of their ages 8 years ago was 48, find the boy's present age.

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Question 1101312: Sam's brother is 7 years older than Sam his mother is 4 less than 3 times Sam's age their combined age is 63 how old is Sam,his brother,his mother
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Question 1101301: Kathy is seven years older than bill. Sally is five years younger than Kathy. The sum of their ages is 45. How old is each child?
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Question 1101301: Kathy is seven years older than bill. Sally is five years younger than Kathy. The sum of their ages is 45. How old is each child?
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Question 1101299: Craig is fifteen years older than his nephew Paul. In four years Craig will be twice as old as Paul. How old is Craig now?
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Question 1101400: When Ana was born her mum was 26 years old. Now her mother is 3 times her age . what is an equation to find her age?
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Question 1101458: 10-8*2
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Question 1101480: There are 5 children in the Yoshida Family. The youngest is in the third grade. The oldest is twice as old as the youngest. The Triplets are 4 years younger than the oldest. the product of all the childeren's age is 221,184. how old each child?

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Question 1101484: there are 5 children is Yosihda Family. The youngest is in the third grade. the Oldest is twice as old as the youngest.The triplets are 4 years youngers than the oldest. The product of all the children's ages is 221,184. How old each child?
thank you!
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Question 1101486: there are 5 children is Yosihda Family. The youngest is in the third grade. the Oldest is twice as old as the youngest.The triplets are 4 years youngers than the oldest. The product of all the children's ages is 221,184. How old each child?
thank you!
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Question 1101493: Stephanie and Vivian agrred to start a Handyman's service. They plannes to work on six projects over the long weekend. They estimated that each job would take a certain amount of time. To their surprise, each job took three times that long. if the total time spent on projects was 36 hours, and if each job took the same amount of time what was their estimate of how long each job would take?
thank you!

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