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Question 1147309: Twice Kent's age now is the same as three times his age two years ago. How old is he now?
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Question 1147367: Three times Ben's age plus twice Sherry's age is 43. Sherry is also 3 less than twice Ben's age. How old is Ben?
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Question 1147343: A total of 820 tickets were sold for a game for a total of GHC 9,128.00. If adults’ tickets were sold for GHC12.00 and children were sold for GHC8.00, how many of each kind of tickets were sold.

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Question 1147438: The sum of jack and Susan’s age is 35. The difference of their age is 27 how old is each person?
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Question 1147497: 8 years from now mary will be 19 years old. The current sum of the ages of mary and jose is 41. how old is jose right now?

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Question 1147497: 8 years from now mary will be 19 years old. The current sum of the ages of mary and jose is 41. how old is jose right now?

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Question 1147516: Please help me solve this problem:
The radioactive element carbon-14 has a half-life of 5750 years. A scientist determined that the bones from a mastodon had lost 50.5% of their carbon-14. How old were the bones at the time they were discovered?
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Question 1147537: The sum of the ages of Kyle and Meredith is 68 years. 8 years ago, Kyle's age was 3 times Meredith's age. How old is Kyle now?

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Question 1147537: The sum of the ages of Kyle and Meredith is 68 years. 8 years ago, Kyle's age was 3 times Meredith's age. How old is Kyle now?

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Question 1147611: Matt is half as old as James will be when Matt
is twice as old as James is now. In 5 years,
the sum of Matt and James age will be 100.
How old are Matt and James now?
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Question 1147625: bob is twice as old as catherine.eight years ago bob was four times as old as catherine.in what year was catherine born ?
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Question 1147609: a ship sails from latitude 40° N. on a course N.E. 26 mi. find the difference of latitude and the departure.
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Question 1147649: Gabrielle is 7 years younger than Mikhail. The sum of their ages is 51. what is Mikhail’s age?
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Question 1147663: Therese is eight years younger than Sian. If the sum of their ages is 34, how old is Tesrese?
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Question 1147608: a ship sails from latitude 35° N. on a course S.W.53 mi. Find the differy of latitude and the departure
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Question 1147714: Emily is 61 years old. Colin is 8 years older than Emily. Dan is 16 years younger than Emily. What is the total of their combined ages?

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Question 1147718: Anthony's age 10 years ago can be expressed as
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Question 1147767: Four years ago man was six times as old as his son but in five years time he will be only three times as old as his son, what are their present ages
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Question 1147791: Pete is twice as old as Mary. 7 years ago the sum of their ages was 31. Find their ages

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Question 1147796: Karen is twice as old as Lori in 3 years the sum of their ages will be 42. Find their ages now.

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Question 1147795: Frank is eight years older than his sister. In three years he will be twice as old as she is. How old are they now?
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Question 1147814: Erin is one-third the age of Colin. Three years ago the sum of their ages was thirty-eight, find the current age of Erin. Show all steps
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Question 1147815: One half of louisas age three years from now increased by three quarters of her age three years ago is 8 how old is Louisa now
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Question 1147810: Terry is Sherrys mother. Terry’s age and Sherrys age have the same digits but in reverse order. In 13 years, Terry will be twice as old as Sherry. How old is Sherry now?
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Question 1147849: The difference between twice Bill’s age and Carlos’s age is 26. The sum of Anna’s age, three times Bill’s
age, and Carlos’s age is 92. The total of the three ages is 52. How old is each person?
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Question 1147869: Jessica’s father is 25 years older than her. The sum of their ages is 53. What is Jessica’s age?
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Question 1147889: The combined age of two brothers is 35 years. Seven years ago, one brother was twice the age of the other. How many years apart were they born? Need help with the equation also using let statements, Thanks.
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Question 1147928: Xavier and Yifei have been married for exactly 37 years. Yifei is four years older than Xavier. The sum of their ages is 120. How old was Yifei when they were married?
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Question 1147929: michael has a sister who is three years older than he is, and a brother who is two years younger than he is. how old must michael be in order that the ratio of his sisters age to his brothers age is less than 2?
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Question 1147943: Sally has an older sister and a younger sister. Her older sister is one year more than twice Sally’s age. Sally’s younger sister is three years younger than she is. The sum of there ages is 26. Find Sally’s age
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Question 1147969: a mother is twice the age of her niece how old would she be in 2 decades from now
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Question 1148017: I'm really stuck on the below question and I've been coming back to it with different ways to complete it but just can't wrap my head around it. Many thanks.
John is one year older than Pat. Mary is twice as old as John. The sum of their age is 63. How old is John.
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Question 1148079: Jane is y years old
a) how old was she 3 years ago?
b) how old will she be in 4 years time?
c) Find her age, if half of what she was 3 years ago is equal to one third of what she will be in 4 years time
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Question 1148121: The ratio of David's age to Sally's age is 3 : 4.

In six years' time it will be 4 : 5.
Complete the sentence by filling in the gaps.
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Question 1148136: Huilan is 11 years younger than Thomas. The sum of their ages is 37. What is Thomas's age?
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Question 1148156: My mother is 12 years more than twice my Age after eight years my mothers age will be 20 years less than three times my age. Find my age my mothers age
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Question 1148179: A man is four times older than his son 5 years a go, the product of their age was 175 find their present ages
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Question 1148179: A man is four times older than his son 5 years a go, the product of their age was 175 find their present ages
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Question 1148179: A man is four times older than his son 5 years a go, the product of their age was 175 find their present ages
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Question 1148188: Quincy is 14 years old.His brother,Luis,is 4 years more then half his age.
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Question 1148211: Erika is five times the age of Ali. 4years from now, Erika will be three times as old as Ali will be then.
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