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Question 388994: Jeff is Three times as old as his son. In nine years, Jeff will be twice as old as his son. How old is each now?
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Question 388994: Jeff is Three times as old as his son. In nine years, Jeff will be twice as old as his son. How old is each now?
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Question 388997: The sum of two numbers is 27. One half of the first number plus one third of the second number is 11. Find the numbers.
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Question 388997: The sum of two numbers is 27. One half of the first number plus one third of the second number is 11. Find the numbers.
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Question 388997: The sum of two numbers is 27. One half of the first number plus one third of the second number is 11. Find the numbers.
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Question 389038: Write the expression
in the form of . where a, b and c are real numbers

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Question 389038: Write the expression
in the form of . where a, b and c are real numbers

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Question 386672: Tom is 4 times as old as Todd. In 7 years Tom's age will be 5 years less than 3 times as old as Todd. How old is Todd?
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Question 389210: vincent is 10 years older than john paul. 5 years ago, his age was twice that of john paul's age. findd their present ages.
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Question 389268: Today a father is four times as old as the sum of the ages of his two sons. Eight years later, he will be twice as old as the sum of his son's ages. What is the father's age today ?
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Question 389385: Man'S AGE IS 3TIMES OF HIS SON .TEN YEARS AGO HE WAS 5TIMES OF HIS SON .FIND AGES OF MAN AND SON.USING SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS TO SOLVE IT . ANS 20YEARS 60YEARS.
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Question 389616: the sum of bob's age and carol's age is 66. Carol's age is 2 more than 3 times bob's age. How old are Carol and bob?
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Question 389629: A BOAT TRAVELS 60 KM UPSTREAM (AGAINST THE CURRENT) IN 5 HOURS. THE BOAT TRAVELS THE SAME DISTANCE DOWNSTREAM IN 3 HOURS. WHAT IS THE RATE OF THE BOAT IN STILL WATER? WHAT S TH RATE OF THE CURREN?

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Question 390045: A father is 12 times as old as his son. In 8 years time,she will be four times as old as her son. Find their present age( please kindly state the method)
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Question 390056: mark is three times as old as jane is now. in three years, mark will be twice as old as jane is then,. how old are they now
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Question 390084: Sharon's mom is eight more than twice her age. Her father is 3 years older than her mother. If the three family members have lived a total of 94 years, how old are each family member?
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Question 390191: The sum of 4 times joans age and 3 times jim's age is 47. Jim is 1 yea
r less than twice as old as joan. Find each of their ages.
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Question 390401: the total of three sisters' ages is 47. Jessica is half as old as Sydney and 3 years younger than Ruby. What is the age of each of the sisters?
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Question 390471: Tom is 4 years older than Jerry. Nine years ago, Tom was 5 times as old as Jerry was then. How old is each now.
Can you please use the chart method?
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Question 390691: Amy is 3 years older than Laura. The product of their ages is equal to 2 times the sum of their ages. Could someone please tell me how to solve this without writing two independent equations? More importantly, how does a 5th grader with no concept of independent variables and equations solve this other than tedious trial and error and at the end, what has he learned?
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Question 390719: Marcus has two sisters. The sum of the girls' ages is 13. The product of their ages is 36. How old is each sister?
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Question 390737: what is 3x+5y=2z written out in math terms?
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Question 390912: Risa is 5 years older than Peter. Last year, she was twice as old as Peter was. How old is each now ?
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Question 390890: In 15 years, Maya will be twice as old as David is now. In 15 years, David will be as old as Maya will be 10 years from now. How old are Maya and David now?
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Question 391145: Sam is 24 years younger than his mother. The total sum of their ages ( adding them together)is 72. How old is Sam's mother ?
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Question 390899: Amy is 5 years younger than Josh. She is twice Sam's age. Josh's age is less than 16. Sam is older than 4. How old is Sam?
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Question 391324: the sum of the ages of Mr X and Mr Y is 48. 8 years from now Mr y will be 3 times Mr X's age. find there present age.
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Question 391379: 10 years ago the father was 7times older than his son.2 years hence 2 times the fathers age will be 5 times the sons age.what are there present age.
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Question 391532: X is 40 times older than Y, and Y is 500
How old is X?
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Question 391724: the age of man is 32 years and 8 years ago what was the age of man

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Question 391791: There are 4 times as many boys as girls in a certain English class. If there are n girls, how many boys are there? how many students in all? State by an equation that there are 30 students in a class. Find the number of boys
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Question 391967: Amy is 5 years younger than bob. in three years bob will be twice Amy's age. Use x as bob's age. Write an equation to figure out Amy and Bob's ages
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Question 391844: Mrs. Holloway was 25 years old when her daughter Rose was born. Now Mrs. Holloway's age exceeds 4 times Rose's age by 10 years. Find their present ages.
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Question 392135: Tess is 4 years older than her sister, Ana. In 4 years,she will be 37 years more than 1/4 as old as Ana will then be. How old are the girls now?

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Question 392205: Jim and his daughter's combined age is 31. Jim is exactly 30 years older than his daughter. How old is his daughter?
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Question 392388: Peter is 12 years older than his brother David. If
four times Peter�s age plus two times David�s age
is 66, how old are Peter and David?
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Question 392604: a man is 20 years older than his son. In ten years, He will be twice as old as his son will then be. How old is each?
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Question 392630: Please help me solve this question:
"A father is four times as old as his son. In four years' time their combined age will be 48 years. How old are they now?"
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Question 392898: Jon is 14 years older than Philip. 2 years from now, Jon will be 3 times as old as Philip. How old is each now?
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Question 392910: Melinda's father Lester is 3 times as old as Melinda. Seven years ago, he was 4 times as old as Melinda. How old is each now?
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Question 393128: please help me with these problems:
1. Olan is 3 years older than his sister, Rose. One-half of Olan's age is 13 yrs. more than 1/4 his sister's age one year ago. Find their ages now.
2. Grace is 4 times as old as Vicky. Five years ago, Vicky was 30 years younger than Grace. Find their present ages.
Thanks. I will appreciate your help in my daughter's homework.
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Question 393416: leila is x years old.old is she six years ago in algebraic expressions?
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Question 393476: What is Henry�s age when told that he is 5 times as old as his son, but will in 4 years time be only 3 times as old?
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