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Question 1132913: Samuel has two daughters, Sonya and Alice. One of them is half as old as Sonya. 60 is the total age of both of them. How old is Alice?
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Question 1132917: Last Saturday, we noticed that app our dance show 1000 tickets were sold. For an adult, The cost of the ticket was $3 and for a child it was $1. When all was said and done, we had a total amount of $1850. Write the number of the adult tickets and children’s tickets that were sold on Sunday
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Question 1132923: Anu's age exceeds sumbo's age by 15. The sum of the square of their ages is 7.25. What are their heights
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Question 1132934: Mr.Santos is 25years older than his son, 8 years ago, he was 7 more than 10 times as old as his son.What are their present ages?
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Question 1132934: Mr.Santos is 25years older than his son, 8 years ago, he was 7 more than 10 times as old as his son.What are their present ages?
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Question 1132934: Mr.Santos is 25years older than his son, 8 years ago, he was 7 more than 10 times as old as his son.What are their present ages?
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Question 1132944: Matthew is y years old.
His wife Jess is 2 years older.
The total age of both Matthew and Jess is 72 years.
Write an equation and solve it to find the value of y (Matthew’s age).

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Question 1133005: 3 person have 75y, the older is 35.
10 y ago they was 47.
How old is the youngest?
75-35=40. one is 20 and another is 22. this is more the 40.
47-25=22. one was 10 and another was 12
can you please help me find the way?

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Question 1133023: age problem
question: Taylor is 9 years younger than katy,Four years ago ,katy is 3less than twice taylors age .how old is katy now?
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Question 1133042: Hansel is 12 years less than four times
Gretel's age. In 6 years, Hansel''s age will
be 3 years more than half Gretel's age.
What are their 2 ages?
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Question 1133038: Leonard is 68 years less than quadruple
Sheldon's age. In 12 years, Leonard's age
will be 24 years less than two times
Sheldon's age. What are their 2 ages?
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Question 1133054: The total ages of 3 people in a certain family is 75. The oldest is 35. Ten years ago the total of their ages was 47. How old is the youngest now?
This is the problem, I tried many solutions but all the time the result is 77. Can you please give me a clue? Thank you
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Question 1133057: A father is thrice as old as his son. Five years ago, he was four times as old as his son. How old is the father now?

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Question 1133055: Nicole is three years older than André. The sum of their ages is 51. Find the age of André.

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Question 1133056: Four years ago, Richard is three times the age of his son André. In 10 years, he will be twice André’s age. How old are they now?

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Question 1133056: Four years ago, Richard is three times the age of his son André. In 10 years, he will be twice André’s age. How old are they now?

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Question 1133073: A teacher has two students, one two times as old as the other. The teacher is five times as old as the older student, and in 5 years she will be five times as old as her younger student. Find the teacher’s present age.
PLS HELP!
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Question 1133105: The ages of Sam,Tonton, and Ramon are consecutive integers. Sam is younger than Ramon but older than Tonton. Sam's mother is thrice as old as Sam and 14 years older than twice as old as Ramon. Find the ages of each person.
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Question 1133115: Sally is three years older than helen the product of their age is 54 how old is Helen
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Question 1133122: Michelle is 5 years younger than Amanda. If the sum of their ages is 51, what are the ages of each young lady?
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Question 1133128: Mary's age is one-third of Helen's age.If Mary is 48 years old,how old is Helen?
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Question 1133125: A 32 year old mother realized that her age is twice the sum of her two children's ages. Her son, jose is two years older than her daughter,sophia. How old are sophia (x) and jose (y)?

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Question 1133143: My grandmother is four times older than i am. If my age is b, then my grandmother's age is ____
The difference between my grandmother's age and my age is ____
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Question 1133147: A grandfather is 4 times as old as his grandson now. Two years ago , the sum of their ages is 76 years. how old is his grandson now?
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Question 1133202: my mother is 36 years old. I am 27 years younger than my mother and my sister is twice my age. how old I am? how old is my sister?.

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Question 1133211: Please provide an easy-to-understand explanation.
Thank you.

My father is 47 years old today and my mother is 38. When they were married, my father was exactly half as old again as my mother. How long ago was their wedding?
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Question 1133235: allen's father is 45. He is 15 years older than twice allen's age. how old is allen

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Question 1133279: Mr.kkms age is 6 more than 3 times the age of his daughter. Mr Kim is 48 years old. How old in years is mr.kims daughter
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Question 1133331: Fred is 4 years younger than Phil. In 16 years, Fred will be 3 times Phil's present age. How old is Phil now?
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Question 1133379: When Vic was born his father was 25 years old.Now,his father's age is 3 years more than twice her age.Find their ages now.
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Question 1133387: Michael can do the household chores in 2 hours and Gabriel can do it in 3 hours. If they work together, how long will it take Michael and Gabriel to do the household chores?

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Question 1133388: Karen is twice as old as Lori. Three years from now, the sum of their ages will be 42. How old is Karen?
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Question 1133388: Karen is twice as old as Lori. Three years from now, the sum of their ages will be 42. How old is Karen?
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Question 1133417: Bob is 6 years older than Fred. Fred is half as old as Bob. How old are they now?
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Question 1133456: A company in the process industry produces a chemical compound that is sold to manufacturers for use in the production of certain plastic products. The plant that produces the compound employs approximately 2,014 people in a rented building (rent $244/person/month) and annual equipment cost of $157,314. Each employee gets an average salary of $100/month with 15% overhead cost per employee.
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Question 1133494: Jose is old as Edwin will be when Jose is twice as old as Edwin was when Jose's age was half the sum of their present ages. Edwin is as old as Jose was when Edwin was half the age he will be ten years from now. How old is Jose?
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Question 1133517: Liza is four times as old as Nene. Six years ago, she was 7 times as old as Nene. Find their present ages.
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Question 1133520: The sum of Gerald's age and Ben's age is 53. Five years ago, Gerald was 7 years more than one-half as old as ben. How old are they?

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Question 1133528: Sean is seven times as old as Stan, Write a variable expression for each of their ages six years ago
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Question 1133571: Todd and Jason are brothers. Todd says I am twice as old as Jason was two years ago. The sum of the brothers ages is 38. How old is each brother
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Question 1133665: My friends dad is 40 years old and his wife is 2 or 3 years older than him how old is his wife? can you help me her moms birthday is February 15 but he does not know the year she was born.
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