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Question 425045: A father is 32 years older than his son. In 4 years the father will be 5 times as old as his son. How old is each now?
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Question 425316: Cliff is 6 years older than his sister Claire. In 2 years cliff will be twice as old.
X = Cliff present Age
Y = Claire's present Age
Question: what is their current age?
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Question 425899: the average age of 8 men is increased by 2 years when 2 of them whose ages are 21 years and 23 years are replaced by two new men. the average age of two new men is?
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Question 425919: Jack is 20 years older than Tom. 4 years later, Jack will be 3 times as old as Tom. How old is Jack now?
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Question 426115: John is 5 times as old as he was 40 years ago so how old is he now/
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Question 426356: A father is nine times the age of his son. In 5 years he will be four times the age of his son. How old are they now?
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Question 425826: Here is the problem I need help with: Carrie is two years less than three times her sister Alicia's age. If the product of their ages is 40, how old is Carrie and how old is Carrie and how old is Alicia? so far I have come up with
3a-2=40 which a=14, now I'm stuck and not sure what to do next. Thanks, Dina
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Question 426425: John is 6 years older than his brother. He will be twice as old as his brother in 4 years. How old is John now?
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Question 426470: Ronnies age plus the square of Alan's age is 2240. Alan's age plus the square of Ronnie's age 1008. How old is Ronnie and Alan?
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Question 426609: I am 60 and was born on July 29, 1950.
My son just turned 30 and was born on March 18, 1981.
On what date will my son be or was my son exactly half my age?
I am a teacher myself (language) and it has been a really long time since I have done math! I swear, things like finding out the percentage I can do but this one has stumped me.
Thank you for your kind response!
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Question 426990: When Tim started football 3 years ago, his coach was twice his age. Currently, Tim's coach is 10 years older than him. How old is Tim now?
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Question 427278: The average age of 8 men is increased by 2 years when two of them whose ages are 21 years and 23 years are replaced by two new men. The average age of the two new men is-
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Question 427066: A man lived 1/6 of his life as a child. 1/7 of his life as an adolescent and 1/12 of his life as a bachelor. Five years after he got married, he had a son. His son died 4 years before the father at 1/2 his age. What age was the son when he died?
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Question 427513: Beth is two years older than Julio. Gerald is twice as old as Beth. Debra is twice as old as Gerald. The sum of their ages is 38. How old is Beth?
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Question 427627: How many years will it take $3500 invested at 7% to earn $735?
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Question 427627: How many years will it take $3500 invested at 7% to earn $735?
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Question 427683: A boy is twice as old as his brother - 4 years ago he was 3 times as old as his brother. What are their present ages?
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Question 428072: i am 10 years old my father is 2 times older than my brother my mom is 10 years younger and my brother is 20 how old in my mother
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Question 428147: The Faber Family has 3 children. Bill's age plus Mike's age add to 20 years. Mike's agee plus Sally's age add to 29 years. Bill's age plus Sally's age add to 23 years. The difference in age between the old child and young child is what?
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Question 428255: 30 years hence a man will be twice as old as he will be 3 years hence. How old is he now?
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Question 428546: A father is 3 times as old as his son. 10 years later , father is 2 times as old as his son, What are their ages?
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Question 428549: carmen is twice tom's age.3 years ago carmen was 3 times as old as tom.how old is carmen?how old is tom?
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Question 429528: Three years ago, Joe's age was 1 year more than twice Karen's. Six years from now, his age will be 10 years more than half her age. how old is Joe?
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Question 429574: Darren is three years older than his sister.In three years, he will be twice as old as she will be then.How old is each now?

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Question 429575: find two consecutive even numbers whose sum is 66

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Question 429575: find two consecutive even numbers whose sum is 66

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Question 429589: Amy has $0.85 in nickels and dimes.She has two more nickel than dime.How many of each kind of coin does she have
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Question 429513: Bill is 4 years older than Jill and 2 years younger than David. If Jill is 12, then what is the percent of years she is older than David?
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Question 429720: In a Family of six the average age is 24 years old. How can you find out the age of each family member with only this information given? I know that the total of all the ages has to equal 144.
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Question 429825: bob is 6 years older than his sister, and the sum of their ages is 32. how old bob?
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Question 429871: A father's age is four times his daughter's age. If the sum of their ages is 45 years, form an equation and find their age.
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Question 430160: The sum of ages of father and a son is 45 years.5 years ago the product of their ages was 4 times the fathers age at that time.Find the present ages of father and son?
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Question 430382: Ruby is three years older than Sam. Sum of their age is 33. How old are both of them?

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Question 430382: Ruby is three years older than Sam. Sum of their age is 33. How old are both of them?

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Question 430341: If Mario was 32 years old 8 years ago, how old was he x years ago?
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Question 430920: A father is 36 years old, and hi son is 6 years old. In how many years' time will the father be twice as old as his son?
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Question 431139: tom is 4 years older than jerry. in 2 years, jerry will be halfas old as tom. find their ages now
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Question 431459: if John is 3 times older than Mary and there is a 24 year difference in their ages, how old are they?
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Question 431459: if John is 3 times older than Mary and there is a 24 year difference in their ages, how old are they?
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Question 431759: what is John's age now, if in twenty-six years he will be three times his present age?
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Question 431940: I'm having a problem setting up a word problem. The problem is Jim is 4 times as old as his daughter is now, 7 years ago he was 11 times her age. How old is Jim? Could you hep me set it up to solve?
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Question 432072:
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Question 432174: Please help me solve this problem!!
The sume of the ages of 2 boys is 18. If 4 times the younger boys age is subtracted from 3 times the older boys age, the difference is 12. What are the ages of the two boys?
Please tell me how to solve this!
I have tried 2x=18 for the first equation
and then 3x-4x=12?
I am so lost
Please get back to me asap
I have class in an hour and a half!!
HELP!!
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Question 432240: A mother's age is 3 years more than the square of her daughter's age. In 18 years time she will be twice her daughter's age. What are the mother's and daughter's ages now?
It is a question for applicable Quadratics. I know what the answer is, I just don't know how to solve it.
I've tried:

and

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