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Question 502462: father's age was three times to his son's age. After 20 years it becomes two times. What is the age of son now?
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Question 502953: * Please help me. I couldn't figure out how to write the linear equation of this problem. thank you.
John�s father is 5 times older than John and John is twice as old as his sister
Alice. In two years time, the sum of their ages will be 60 . How old is John
now?

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Question 502935: Maria is three times as old as her brother. In four years, Maria will be twice as old as he will be then. How old is Maria's brother now?
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Question 502906: Maria is three times as old as her brother. In four years, Maria will be twice as old as he will be then. How old is Maria's brother now?
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Question 502856: Betty is 5 years older than twice the age of Bambam. Fred is 3 years older than Betty. Their ages equal 63. How old is each family member?
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Question 503132: 1.a father is now 5 times as old as his son. 21 years hence he will be twice as old as his son . what are their ages.
2.find a number such that when 58 is added to it , the result is equal to 3 x the number.

3.in 8 year time time mart age will be 4 times her age 7 years ago. if Mary is x year now. what is Marys age in 8 year time .
Marys age 7 years ago
solve x
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Question 502796: the sum of the ages of my twin sisters and myself is 17.
the product of our ages is a square number.
what are the ages of me and my twin sisters?
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Question 503236: For question 261188 In 28 years, Mark will be 5 times as old as he is now. Find his present age. How did you come up with 4m. I would like to better understand the breakdown.

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Question 503239: Mary receives $87.00 for working one eight our day. One day she had to stop after working five hours because of a doctor's appointment. How much did she make that day?
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Question 503238: At the dog park their are several dogs with their owners. Counting heads, there are 12, counting legs, there are 38. How many dogs and owners are there?
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Question 503260: An Automobile travels 527 miles on 12.8 gallons of gasoline. How many miles per gallon did the car get?
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Question 503260: An Automobile travels 527 miles on 12.8 gallons of gasoline. How many miles per gallon did the car get?
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Question 503361: The sum of present ages of Ian and his brother is 45. In 5 years, Ian will be 5/6 of his brother's age. Find their present ages.
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Question 503473: Ricardo is 8 years older than his sister. Define a variable. Write a function rule that relates Ricardo's age to his sister's age.
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Question 503657: In 2011, skateboarding legend Micheal Jordan's age was twice that of Olympic Star Lebron James minus 9 years. The sum of their ages in 2011 was 72. How old were Micheal and Lebron in 2011?
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Question 503656: In 2011, skateboarding legend Micheal Jordan's age was twice that of Olympic Star Lebron James minus 0 years. The sum of their ages in 2011 was 72. How old were Micheal and Lebron in 2011?
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Question 503663: Allen is three times as old as Sarah. Sarah is two years younger than jim , who is currently 12 years old. How old is allen ?
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Question 503764: marry is x year old. write the present age of marry's niece if her niece is 3 years less than one third of marry's age 5 year ago
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Question 503855: How do I set up this problem, there were 1.388 millions childcare workers in 2006. The number of job opportunities in that fieldis expected to grow to 1.636 million by 2016. What is the percent of increase?
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Question 504017: Jack is married to Jill. Their son, Junior, asked each of them to reveal their ages. Junior�s parents decided to tell him, but in the form of a puzzle. Jack told Junior, �If you reverse the digits in my age, you get your mother�s age.
Jill told her son, �The sum of my age and your dad�s age is equal to 11 times the difference in our ages.�
�Wait a minute,� said Junior, �I can�t figure out your ages with just those two clues!�
�You�re right,� said Jack. �Remember that I am older than your mother.�
What are the ages of Jack and Jill?
Organize and show all of your work.

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Question 504603: shane is twice as old as his daughter in 42 years the ratio of thir ages will be 4:3 what is the daughter's current age?
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Question 504603: shane is twice as old as his daughter in 42 years the ratio of thir ages will be 4:3 what is the daughter's current age?
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Question 504150: the ages of three children in a family can be expressed as consecutive integers. the square of the age of the youngest child is 4 more than 8 times the age of the oldest. find the ages of the three children
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Question 504870: sapana is six years younger than kristen. six years ago, kristen was three times as old as sapana was than. how old was sapana six years ago?
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Question 504902: I need help with this equation, Janes mom is 32 yrs old, when jane was born, now janes mom is 3 times old as jane. how old is jane?
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Question 505176: Tony is 5 years older than his sister. In 3 years he will be twice as oldas she is. How old is Tony?

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Question 505052: In 28 years, Mark will be 5times as old as he is now. Find his present age.
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Question 505755: I am twice as old as she was when I was as old as she is. when she is as old as I am now, the sum of our ages will be 63
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Question 505755: I am twice as old as she was when I was as old as she is. when she is as old as I am now, the sum of our ages will be 63
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Question 505837: Mary is n years old. How old will she be in 7 year?s How old was she 8 years ago?
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Question 505650: Ronald, Mark and Paula are three children in the same family. Paula is three times Mark's age. In two years, she will be twice the age Ronald will be at that time. Ronald is one year older than Mark. How old is each child
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Question 505856: Tessie is twice as old as Norma. Three years ago, she was three times as old. How old are they now?
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Question 505945: one apple cost 8 $ how many apple can be purchase in 50 $
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Question 505938: father�s age is three times the sum of the ages of his two children, but 20 years hence his age will be equal to the sum of their ages. Then the father�s ageis:
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Question 505991: 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 506471: Steve's age is seven-tenths of Paul's age. In 4 years Steve's age will be eight-elevenths of Paul's age. How old is Paul now?

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Question 506321: craig is 28 years younger than his father the sum of both ages is 64 how old is craigs father

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Question 506293: Jean is 27 years older than her daughter Rita. After 8 years she will be twice as old as Rita. Find their present ages.
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Question 506656: Jim is x years old.
Mike is 2 years older than Jim.
8 years ago, Mike was twice as old as Jim.
What is Jim's age?
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Question 506656: Jim is x years old.
Mike is 2 years older than Jim.
8 years ago, Mike was twice as old as Jim.
What is Jim's age?
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Question 506566: Professor Haber�s wife is 6 years younger than her husband. One day after working on a mathematical formula, he remarked to her, �did you know, June that we�ve been married 22 years, and since our marriage our combined ages have exactly doubled?�
How old were they when they were married?

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Question 506682: gregs age is 18 which is 6 less than 4 times bills age.How old is bill
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Question 506682: gregs age is 18 which is 6 less than 4 times bills age.How old is bill
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Question 506685: when two is subtracted from one-forth of a number the result is 17. What is the original number
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Question 506741: larry is 2 years younger then Ben. if the sum of their age is 49, what are their ages?
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