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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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Question 279273: joe's age is 4 less than the age of his brother tom. the sum of their age is 41. find the age of each.
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Question 279375: I was five times as old as my sister five years ago, and I am three times older than her now. How old am I?
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Question 279555: ANNES AGE IS SEVEN-TENTHS OF BILLS AGE.IN 4 YEARS ANNES AGE WILL BE EIGHT-ELEVENTHS OF BILLS AGE.HOW OLD IS BILL NOW?
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Question 279612: The difference of two numbers is 20 and their product is -96. How do I find their numbers??
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Question 279667: in 13 years i will be twice as old as i was 7 years ago. what is my age

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Question 279943: jon is 13 years older than tony. the sum of their ages is 27. how old are they?
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Question 280026: Not wanting to be embarrassed by revealing her age on her birthday, Grandma instead told the grandkids that if they multiplied her age in 5 years by 5, then multiplied her age in 6 years by 6, and added the two totals together, they would get a number that is 12 times her current age. When she saw the large wax forest fire atop her birthday cake , Grandma knew they had figured it out. How old is she?
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Question 280191: poppy ans sesame bagels are bought to a brunch in a ratio of 3 poppy bagels to one sesame bagel. if there are 100 bagels in total, how many poppy bagels are there
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Question 280536: josh is x years old now.Represent his age 10 years from now.

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Question 280612: X is 1/2 as old as Y. Z is 2 times as old as Y. Z is how many times as old as X?
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Question 280621: John is twice as old as his sister Mary. Mary's age is 1/6 the age of her mother. Their mother is 30. How old are John and Mary?
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Question 280886: ALEX IS 16 YEARS OLD AND HIS SISTER RAMIE IS 5 YEARS OLD. IN HOW MANY YEARS WILL ALEX BE EXACTLY TWICE AS OLD AS RAMIE?
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Question 280956: Mothers age was twice the the age of son two years ago.after how many years will she be three times her sons age?
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Question 281087: Gina is 9 years younger than her sister, Bridgette. Two years ago, Bridgette was twice as old as Gina was. How old is Gina now?
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Question 281442: A couple has nine daughters. The sum of the daughters' ages is 207. The age difference between consecutive daughters is always three years. The age of the middle daughter is:
(A)21 (B) 23 (C) 25 (D) 27 (E) 29
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Question 281515: a man is 5times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be only 3 times as old as his son, find the present age?
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Question 281515: a man is 5times as old as his son. In 5 years he will be only 3 times as old as his son, find the present age?
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Question 281526: each of the sides of an isosceles triangle is three times as long as the third side. If the perimeter of the triangle is 28cm find the length of each side of the triangle
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Question 282528: Joe is twice as old as sam. sam is 3 times as old as paul.The sum of all the ages is 90 years. how old is sam?
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Question 282794: If Bill is 5 years older than his sister Pam, and their age totals 14 then how old is Pam?
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Question 282761: Adam is 6 years older but twice Joe's age. Their total age is 27.
What are Adam and Joe's ages?
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Question 283346: HI HERES MY PROBLEM
My husband Is 4 times older than my daughter now. it 20 years he'll be twice as old.
how old is the father?
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Question 283256: A mother is twice as old as her daughter now, but 10 years ago, she was 3 times as
old as her daughter. Find their ages at present.
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Question 283579: if i'm 8 yrs old and my dad is 7 times my age, how old is he
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Question 182663: A Man's age this year is three times that of his Son. If in 15 years time the Father will be twice as old as his Son, find their present ages.
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Question 284262: Steve is half as old as Stacey. The sum of their ages five years ago was 8. How old are Steve and Stacey now?
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Question 284152: Mother age was twice the the age of son two years ago.after how many years will she be three times her son?
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Question 285610: Jamie is 5 years older than her sister Amy. If the sum of their ages is 19, how old is Jamie?

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Question 285618: Ann is 3 times as old as cousin Bob. Four years from now she will be one year more than twice as old as her cousin Bob will be then. What are their present ages?
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Question 285694: Three times the sum of Jim's and Tom's ages is equal to twelve times the difference of their ages, and three years ago Jim was twice as old as Tom was. How old is Tom now?
The formula I came up with was 3(a+b) = 12(a-b)
Am I on the right track?
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Question 285664: In ten years from now, a father will be twice as old as his son. Ten years ago, he was six times as old. How old are they now?
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Question 285783: Each year on Colin�s birthday (since his first birthday), he celebrates with a birthday cake and the number of candles on the cake is always equal to his age. If he has had a total of 253 candles on his birthday cakes, how old is he?
A.22 B. 20 C. 24 D. 19 E. None of these.

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Question 285950: Could you set up this word problem please? Then I will solve it.
Derek is four times as old as Sarah. Three years ago the sum of their ages was 44. How old is each now?
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Question 285999: Cathy has six pairs of black socks and six pairs of white socks in her drawer.In complete darkness, and without looking, how many socks must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair tha match?
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Question 285998: Tom,eighteen years old,is three times as old as his brother.How wil Tom be when he is twice as old as his brother?
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Question 286169: Don't submit the same or similar problems more than once.
This was submitted at least twice within ten minutes.
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Question 286180: Jessica is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Jane was when Jessica was as old as Jane is now.
How old is Jane?
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Question 286003: The age of the father is 3 years more than 3 times the age of son. After 3 years the age of the father will be 10 years more then twice the age of the son. Find their present ages?
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Question 287628: Two years from now, Jorge will be three times as old as Maria is now. in ten yers, Jorge will be four times as old as Maria is now. what are Jorges and Marias current age?
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Question 287596: Hannah, Mark and Tom have a combined age of 68. Hannah is twice as old as the difference 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 287779: Mr. Parabol, a mathematics teacher was traveling by bus with his family consisting of his mother,wife,son,and daughter. The bus conductor doubting the son's right to have a half-fare ticket asked, How old is your daughter?Mr.Parabola, irritated at having his honesty questioned,confused the conductor with his answer: my daughter is twice as old as my son. My wife is three times as old as the sum of the ages of my son and daughter, and iam as old as my wife and daughter. My mother whose age is the total of all our ages is now 69. can you help the conductor in finding the age of the girl?
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