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Question 273518: I need help with the question below. I do not know where to start with this question.
"John spent a quarter of his life as a boy growing up, a sixth of his life in college, and a half of his life as a teacher. He spent the last 6 years in retirement. How old was he when he died?"
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Question 273651: Given triangle ABC what is the sum of the supplements of all three exterior angles of the triangle?
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Question 273650: How many triangles can be formed by connecting any 3 vertices of a regular hexagon?
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Question 273731: help me with this q without using substitution but by making a proper frormula and solving it. a woman is 24 years older than her daughter. two years ago she was 4 times older than her daughter, find their present ages. and do this question without trial and error aswell : James has 15 times as much money as his brother. If james gives John 12 pence he then as 3 times as much as he has. how much did they each start with?
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Question 273821: Demtris is 14 years older than Sam. In 9 years he will be twice her age. How old are Demetris and sam?
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Question 274096: one number is two more than another.their sum is eight.find both numbers.
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Question 274076: The sum of the ages of the three Romano brothers is 63. If their ages can be represented as consecutive integers, what is the age of the middle brother?

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Question 274217: Pam bought several cartons of Giggle Fruit Drinks to sell during the track meet. She paid 50 cents per carton. She sold all but 15 of the cartons for $1 each. At the end of the day, her profit was $22.50. How many cartons of Giggle did she buy?

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Question 274272: what is five less than twice a number is between 13 and 21 as an expression?
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Question 274272: what is five less than twice a number is between 13 and 21 as an expression?
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Question 274588: a father is 5 times as old as his son. In 4 years the sum of their ages will be 56 years. Find their present age
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Question 274588: a father is 5 times as old as his son. In 4 years the sum of their ages will be 56 years. Find their present age
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Question 275191: Kiana has two older twin brothers. The product of their three ages is 128. What is the sum of their three ages?
I understand that her brothers are twins, so two of the three numbers I'm looking for are the same, but beyond that, I dont really know what to do.
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Question 275242: tom is 4 times as old as todd. in 5 years toms age will be 1 year less than 3 times as old as todd. how old is tom?
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Question 275488: A boy is 5 years old and his sisters is twice as old. When the boy is 8 years old, how old will his sister be?
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Question 275666: Sam is twice as old as John was two years ago. If the difference between their ages be 2 years, how old is Sam today?
plz solve this and I will be more thankfull to you.

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Question 275686: The square of Mark's age 3 years ago is 6 times the age he will be in 9 years. What is his age now?
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Question 276049: the sum of the ages of father and son is 45. after 5 years the product of age is 600, find their present age? with steps
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Question 276430: Shelly is three years older than Michele. Four years ago the sum of their ages was 67. Find the age of the person now. Can you give me a basic formula to solving most Age Word Problems.
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Question 276438: Two Questions :
Cody is Twice as old as Evan. Three years ago the sum of their ages was 27. Find the age of each boy.
Jack is twice as old as Lacy. In Three years the sum of their age will be 54. How old are they now.
Your help is greatly appreciated :D
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Question 276513: john is 2/3 as old as his sister. His sister is 30 years old. How old is john
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Question 276470: Fred is four years older than Barney. Five years ago the sum of their ages was 48. How old are they now ?
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Question 276556: James' age in 11 years will be three times what it was 9 years ago. How old is James now?
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Question 276487: Hannah, Mark and Tom have a combined age of 68. Hannah is twice as old as the dierence between Mark and Tom's age. Mark and Tom's combined age is 16 times
Hannah's age. Mark is older than Tom. How old is Tom?
(a) 31 (b) 32 (c) 33 (d) 34 (e) None of the above
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Question 276847: the sum of the ages of three children is 32 the age of the oldest is twice the age of the youngest the ages of the two oldest differ between 3 years what are the ages of the three children?
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Question 277200: tom is now 4 times as old as todd.in three years tom's age will be 13 years more than 2 times as old as tom. how old is tom?
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Question 277047: a man was 32 years old when his daughter was born. he is now five times older than his daughter. how old is his daughter now?
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Question 277454: the sum of the first six terms of a geometric progression is nine time the sum of the first three terms, where neither the first nor the common ratio is equal to zero. find the common ratio.
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Question 277803: Sammy takes 5 hours longer to complet 300 lines of code than Martin. Together Sammy and Martin can complete the code in 6 hours.
How long it takes each programmer to complete the code if they program on their own. (hint: Quadratic equaiton )and 2) at what speed they are programming lines per hour.

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Question 278015: 5. The ages of Peter, Margaret and Jack are consecutive odd numbers. The sum of the ages of Peter and Margaret equals Jack�s age before 5 years. Find the ages of Peter, Margret and jack
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Question 278214: four years ago, marion was 2/3 as old as les was.now she is 3/4 as old as he is. how old is each now?
I know that i have to always compare the ages in the same time, so i have
2/3m=L
3/4m plus 4=L plus 4
I am fairly certain the second equation is wrong.
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Question 278344: Cary is 9 yrs. old than Dan. In 7 years their ages 93. Find the ages of each man now.
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Question 278342: Sum of present ages of a man and his son is 60 years. Five years ago the mans age was 4 times his sons age. Then find their present ages.
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Question 278390: hello, i need help on solving this type of word problem, but im not sure on how to solve it the problem is Mr.Klinker is 35 and his daughter is 10. In how many years will Mr. Klinker be twice as old as his daughter? Could you please help? thank you.
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Question 278434: Raul is 5 years older than twice Carlos' age. the sum of their ages is 101 how old is Carlos ?

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Question 278519: the sum of the ages of mike and dan is 20 years. in 4 years, dan's age will be three-fourths of mike's age. how old is mike now?

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Question 278524: the sum of the ages of jasmine and her mother is 100. thir years ago jasmine's mother was 9 times as old as jasmine was then. how old is jamine now?
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Question 278544: Mary is 24 years older than her son John. The sum of their ages is 40. How old is John?

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Question 278544: Mary is 24 years older than her son John. The sum of their ages is 40. How old is John?

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Question 278577: Molly's age is twice Anitas. If the sum of the squares of thier ages is 80, then what are their ages?
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Question 278689: How old are each of the kids with 1 being the oldest and the twins younger the sum of the ages is 17 product is a square #?
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Question 278836: Paul's father is 2 years older than his mother. Paul's age is one third his father's age. When Paul was born, the sum of his parent's age was 42. How old are Paul's parents now?
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Question 279065: Anita has two sisters and three brothers. The mean of all their ages is 6 years. What will their mean age be 10 years from now? Twenty years from now?
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