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Question 491919: jenny is 3 times as old as her little sister, but only half as old as her brother. in four years time jenny will be twice as old as her sister, how old is jenny's brother?
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Question 491911: Let m= Maricar's age now. Let b= Bong's age now. Express the following in terms of m and b.
a. Bong's age in 7 years
b. Bong's age 4 years ago
c. Maricar's age in 7 years
d. Maricar's age 4 years ago
e. The sum of their ages in 7 years
f. The sum of their ages 4 years ago
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Question 491893: craig is 5 years older than bruce. the product of their ages is 1184. how old are they? i know their ages are 32 and 37 but how do i set it up?
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Question 491802: Sarah is 5 years younger than 3 times Joes age, the sum of their ages is 43. What are both of their ages?
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Question 491644: Bob's dad is 27 years older than Bob. The sum of their ages 5 years ago was 45 years. How old is Bob now?
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Question 491978: Robie is 10 years older than Micah. In three years, the product of her age and Micah's age five years ago will be 80 years. Find their present ages.
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Question 492089: The sum of the present ages of Ian and his Brother is 45, In 5years, Ian's age will be five-sixths of his brothers age. Findtheir present ages.

I know the answers but can't figure out how to GET the answers! THANKS
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Question 492671: Hi there, I have to figure out how old the youngest person will be when I am three times his age. I have done the problem and I keep getting an answer that states how old we were 8 years ago. Currently I am 32 and the youngest person is 16. Please help! I think I am doing it correctly but I just want to make sure I am.
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Question 492681: ram father is thrice as old as ram was 2 years ago.five years from now his father age will be 6 year more than twice the ram age.what is ram present ???

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Question 493059: How many grains of sand would be in a cubic meter of sand?

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Question 493026: My grandfather was x years old in the year x2. In what year was he born?
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Question 493338: Lynee is eight years older than Cherese. Four years ago she was twice as old as Cherese was. How old is Lynne now?

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Question 493349: Two days ago I was 39 years old. Next year I will be 42 years old. How can this be true?
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Question 493613: i am 3times as old as my son.5years ago i was 4times as old as he.what is my age and son's age?
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Question 493700: The word problem is: Steve is six years older than Sarah is now. In ten years he will be twice her age. Find their ages.
I figured s= steve's age now, and x=sarah's age now. so s+10=Steve in 10 years. and 2x+10=Sarah in 10 years. This is where i start to get confused.
s+10=2(x+10). so does that make 6+x+10=2(x+10)? If thats true then when i finisht the math why do i get x=-4 or -x=4. can you help please?
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Question 493747: Steve is six years older than Sarah is now. In ten years he will be twice her age. Find their ages.
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Question 493969: The units digit of a two-digit number is twice of the tens digit. Find the two digit number, If the value are interchanged, it is equal to 9 more than the original number.
Please help me what's the answer
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Question 494056: Rod is 15 times as old as Sloan. In 5 years, Rod will be only 5 times as old as Sloan. How old are they now?
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Question 495007: John is 5 years older than Mary. In 10 years, twice John's age decreased by Mary's age is 35, and John's age will be twice Mary's current age. Find their ages now.
If x is Mary's age now and y is John's age now, which system of equations could not be used to solve the problem?
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Question 495012: With the wind, a jet takes 3 hours to fly 1,890 miles. Against the wind, it takes 3 3/8 hours for the same trip. Find the wind speed and the plane's air speed.
If x is the plane's speed and y is the wind's speed, then which two expressions represent the rate of speed in each direction?
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Question 495274: A lady is 24 years older then her daughter. What will be the daughter's age when it is one-third of her mother's ?
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Question 495633: Wendy was four years older than three times the age of Sammy. The sum of their ages is 60. How old is each one.
We know the answers are 14 and 46, we just cant figure out the equation.
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Question 495669: Six hundred people attended the premiere of a motion picture. Adult tickets cost $13, and children were admitted for $11. If box office receipts totaled $7000, how many children attended the premiere?

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Question 495887: The sum of the ages of Sandy and Amy is 55. Amy is 9 years younger than Sandy. How old is Sandy?
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Question 496057: I am 4 times older than you were when i was as old as you are.
10 years ago i was 9 years older than you.
what is the current age of mine and you??
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Question 496773: please help me with this age problem;

Harry is one year older than twice his sister�s age.
In three years, Harry will be nine years older than his sister. How old is Harry?
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Question 497131: Ten years ago a mother was three times as old as her son was. The sum of their ages today is 60. How old is the mother today?

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Question 497414: the present age of a man is 3 times that of his son 6 years ago, the age of the man was 4 times that of his son. the ratio of their ages 6 years later will be?
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Question 497500: Marie is 4 years younger than Peter. if the product of their ages is 5 years ago is 45.What are their age now?
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Question 497237: 5 years ago Jane was 5 times as old as her son. 5 years hence her age will be 8 less than 3 times the corresponding age of her son.Find their ages
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Question 497955: The ratio of Ricardo's age and emily's age is 3:8 the difference in their ages is 15 years how old is emily?
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Question 497521: If you add the square of Ruben's age to the age of Angelita, the sum is 62; but if yo add the square of Angelita's age to the age of Ruben, the sum is 176. Can you say what the ages of Ruben and Angelita are?

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Question 498140: In five years Dad will be three times as old as his daughter Jill will be then. If the sum of their present ages is 50, how old are they now?
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Question 498187: Two years ago, a man was eight times as old as his son. In three years time, he will be four and a half times his son's age then. Find their present ages.
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Question 498180: if the average of the ages of three men is 54 years, and if no one of them is less than 50 years old, what is the maximum age, in years, of any one man?
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Question 498227: Stephanie is 3 years older than Andrew. Twelve years from now the sum of their ages will be 30 years more than Stephanie's age at present.
a. If x represent Andrew's Present age; what represent Stephanie's age?
b. What expression represents the sum of the present ages of the two?
c. what expression represents the sum of their ages in 12 years?
d. What linear function may be used to solve the problem?
e. what are the present ages of the two?
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Question 498525: okay this is a word problem that i dont know how to do:
Brad is 3 years more than half of Brandon's age. If their combined age is 93 years, how old is each man?
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Question 498494: sally is 12 years old and her uncle mike is 3 times as old. How many years must pass before her uncle mike is only twice as old as sally? how many years ago was uncle mike 7 times as old.
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Question 498027: ted is ten times as old as his daughter sarah. in four years he will be 6 times as old as she how old is sarah?

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Question 498602: How do you translate the following phrase into an algebraic expression:
Three years less than your sisters age
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Question 498804: The sum of the age of Dave and Ted is 48 yrs.Eight years from now Ted will be three times Dave age. Find their present age.
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Question 498815: Tomas's age is 33 and Tim is 6.In how many years will Tomas's age be 4 times more than Tim's
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Question 498620: Mrs. Brooks lacks 7 years from being 5 times as old as her son. Six years from now she will lack three years from being three times as old as her son is then. Find each of their ages.
I came up with 2 equations, but I'm not sure where to go from there!
y = 5x - 7 and y + 6 = 3x - 3
Help me please!
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