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Question 457222: A father is six times as old as his son. Two years ago he was eight times as old. Find the son's age.
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Question 457446: In his pocket a boy has 3 red marbles, 4 blue marbles and 4 green marbles. How many will he have to take out of his pocket to ensure that he has taken out at least one of each color.
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Question 457512: Brendan's age is represented by x-4. His sister meg is 3 times as old as brendan. Which expression best represents meg's age ?
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Question 457562: A mother is 7 times as old as her son. In 5 years time she will be 4 times her son's age. How old is the mother now?
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Question 457444: You are lying 120 ft. from a tree that is 50 ft. tall.You look up at the top of the tree Approximately how far is head from the tree?
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Question 458159: 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 458404: helen is thirteen yrs. old helens father is four years more than twice her age

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Question 458411: please help me solve this question:present ages of anu and raj are in the ratio 4:5 eight years from now the ratio of thier ages will be 5:6 find thier present ages.

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Question 458420: Determine the dollar amount for the cement needed for a sidewalk that is 4 inches thick, 3 feet wide, and 40 feet long. The cement is sold for $76 per cubic yard.(Calculate the problem using fractions to avoid rounding errors caused by repeating decimals.)
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Question 458821: The sum of the present ages of Ram and Sham is 36 yrs. Ram is elder than Shyam by 2 years. Find their present ages.
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Question 458819: 1. the length of a rectangle is greater than twice its breadth by 4cm. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 26cm. Find its length and breadth.
2. The sum of the present ages of Ram and Shaym is 36 yrs. Ram is elder than Shaym by 2 rs. Find Their present ages.

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Question 458845: maria is 30 years old.her age is 5x of her son.how old is her son

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Question 459136: Three years ago, Jeffrey was twice as old as Michael is now. In nine years, Jeffery will be four times as old as Michael is now. What are Jeffery's and Michael's current age.
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Question 459668: My great grandmother,grandmother,mother & myself. If u reverse the digits of my age u will get the age of my great grandmother. I was born when my mother was 21. My mother was born when her mother was 21 and my grandmother was born when her mother was 21. Now can u tell our ages???
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Question 459890: the total age between a father and son is 56 years.14 years later, the fathers age is twice of the son`s age. how old is the son?
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Question 459955: Jerry's age 10 years ago can be expressed as?
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Question 459954: In Ryan Corporation, the first shift produced 5 1/2 times as many lightbulbs as the second shift. If the total lightbulbs produced was 16,250, how many lightbulbs were produced on shift #1?

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Question 460547: One-eleventh of all sales at Joe's Diner is for cash. If cash sales for the week were $380, what were Joe's total sales?

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Question 460546: Mike and Bill sell cars for Jangle's Auto. Over the past year they sold 640 cars. Assuming Mike sells 3 times as many as Bill, how many cars did Mike sell?

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Question 460544: The sum of the ages of Joe and Jim is 92. Eight years from now, Joe will be twice Jim's age. Find Joe's present age?
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Question 460688: The ratio of detectives to patrol officers is 2:9 The police force has 187 detectives and patrolemen, how many detectives
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Question 460688: The ratio of detectives to patrol officers is 2:9 The police force has 187 detectives and patrolemen, how many detectives
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Question 460688: The ratio of detectives to patrol officers is 2:9 The police force has 187 detectives and patrolemen, how many detectives
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Question 461174: I am three times as old as my son. Five years later I shall be two and a half times as old as my son. What is my age?
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Question 461167: Five years from ago, Zack was three times as old Aaron. Five years from now, Zack will be twice as old as aaron. How old is Aaron?
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Question 461318: after 16 yeras fatima will be three times as old as she is now . Find her present age.
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Question 461546: a man is thrice as old as his son . Three years ago the man was four times as old as his son. Find their present ages.
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Question 461640: jim is 5 years older than cindy.4 years ago, the sum of their ages was 21.find each of their ages now
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Question 461660: you and your four sisters have a booth in the community's sale. the total income is divided by 5 and each person gets 200. write an equation to find the income. then solve the equation.
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Question 461661: Boadicea died one hundred and twenty-nine years after Cleopatra was born. Their united ages (that is, combined years of their complete lives) were one hundred years. Cleopatra was born 30 B.C. When was Bodicea born?
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Question 461774: bill is 6 years older than Tom. Three years ago Bill's age was four times Tom's age. What is the age of each boy?
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Question 461830: When my father was 32, I was 9. Now he is twice as old as I am. HOW OLD AM I?
I've got the answer via guess and check but my teacher demands an equation. PLEASE HELP!
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Question 461939: If the sum of a fathers and sons age is 53, and the son is 25 years younger then the dad how old is the son
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Question 462031: Five years ago Jenny was exactly double the age of John. Five years from now John will be exactly 3/4 tha age of Jenny.Calcute both their ages.
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Question 462064: A women has seven children, including two sets of triplets. If you multiply the kids ages you get 6591. How old are the children?
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Question 462137: In 8 years time I will be twice the age I was 3 years ago ... How old am I now?
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Question 462217: a daughter is 5 years old and her mother 25 years old now.in how many years time will the daughter be half as old as her mother
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Question 462374: beths mom is 6 times older than beth. beths dad is 7 years older than beths mom the sum of their ages is 72 how old are each of them
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Question 462448: My Father, twice my age now, was six times my age twenty years ago. How old am I?
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Question 462444: A father is 5 times as old as his son. In 18 years, the father will be twice as old as his son. How old is the father at present?

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Question 462753: John is 13 years old. He is 3 years older than twice his sister Mary's age. How old is john?
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Question 462837: Brad is 6 years older than Pedro. Five years ago Pedro's age was three-fourths of Brad's age at that time. Find the present ages of Brad and Pedro.
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Question 462934: Please help me solve this problem.In 1992 life expectancy of males was 64.1 years. In 1998 it was 66.5 years.
Let E represent life expectancy in year t and let t represent number of years since 1992.
Linear function E(t) that fits this data is
E(t)=?t + ? (rounded to nearest 10th)
Life expectancy of males in 2009
E(17)=?
How do I figure out what to put in the spaces where the "?" are? Thank you for any help you can give me.
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