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Question 550376: 1.) A man is four times as old as his son. In three years,the father will be three times as old as his son. How old is each three years ago? Please show me the complete procedure,thank you.
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Question 550565: Steve is 25 years older than his son John. In ten years, Steve will be twice John's age. How old are Steve and John now? Write a system of equations to model the situation.
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Question 550580: john and tom are brothers. Tom is seven years older than john. In four years tom will be twice as old as john. how old is tom? how old is john

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Question 550659: Sally is 12 years old. She is four years older than twice the age of Jan.
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Question 550530: Older person 60 , 50, and 15 are the ages
For example, if x = your age and the eldest person was a year older than you, you would write their age as x + 1. Then the equation would be: x + (x+1) = 150.
Explain the reasoning which helped you develop your equation.
Solve for your future ages. Are your answers reasonable, do they add up to 150?
In years, how old were you when the youngest person was born?
At some point during the lives of you and the youngest person, your age will be three times his/her age at that moment. Write an equation which models how old in years each of you will be when you are three times as old as the younger person.
Explain the reasoning which helped you develop your equation.
Solve the equation for your ages when you are three times as old as the youngest person. Are your answers reasonable?

Can you help with qriting this equations?
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Question 550813: what is the solution to the question "raja's age is one-fifth his father's age after six years his age will be one-third his father's age. how old are they now."
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Question 550668: Diane is half the age of her brother 6 years ago. Represent Diane's age if her brother is y years old.
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Question 550805: The age of a man is 10 years more than three times his brother's age. Find the age of each if 5 years from now he will be 4 years more than twice his brother's age.

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Question 550862: The sum of the digits of a certain two digit number is 10. If the number formed by interchanging the digits is subtracted from the original number. Find the original number. Please help me solve this!
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Question 550914: The woman is three times as old as her son. If she is half as old as her father, her father is commonly how many times older than her son?
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Question 551027: The age of a man is 10 years more than three times his brother's age. Find the age of each if 5 years from now he will be 4 years more than twice his brother's age.
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Question 551198: a woman is 5 times older than her youngest daughter. how old is each now if the sum of their ages is 50?
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Question 551211: A father is 24 years older than his son. In 8years he will be twice as old as his son. Determine their present ages. Please, Thank you~
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Question 551328: Please help me solve this word problem: The sum of the ages of Mark and his father is 58 years. The difference in their ages is 32 years. How old is each person? I tried solving it by doing 2x+32=58-2x. But then I got a fraction for an answer. Thank you for helping me!
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Question 551455: the sides of a triangle can be represented as 2x+2, 4x+24, and 6x-2. The sides of a square can be represented as 2x+10. if the perimeters of both shapes are equal, what is the value of x?
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Question 551734: Shanti is 5 times as old as her brother. Next year, she will be 3 times as old. What is Shanti's age now?
How do you solve this?
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Question 551949: sam is 4 years older than cathy. if 4 times catherine's age is subtracted from 5 times sam's age, the difference is 32 years. find the age of each.
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Question 552092: jane is x years old. how old was she 3 years back

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Question 552094: The age of the father will be five times the age of his son in five years time. If the sum of their ages now is 80 years. Calculate the present age of the father.
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Question 551945: The sum of the present ages of Joey and his mother is 46 years. In 4 years, Joey will be 3 years older than one-half as old as his mother at that time. Find the present ages of Joey and his mother.
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Question 552484: the age of man is 10 years more than three times his brother's age. Find the age if 5 years from now he will be 4 years more than twice hi brothers age.
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Question 552546: In 12 years time I shall be the age I was 10 years ago. How old am I?
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Question 552775: the sum of brads age and his fathers age is 58. in four years brads father will be twice as old as brad what are their ages now?
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Question 552794: Gabriel is 16 years older than sam. in 4 years gabriel will be twice as old as sam. What are their ages now?
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Question 552824: Conner is camping along a river. It takes him 1.5 hours to paddle his canoe 6 miles upstream from his campsite. Conner turns his canoe around and returns 6 miles downstream to his campsite in exactly 1 hour. What is the rate of the river's current and the rate of conner's paddling in still water?
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Question 552922: Carol is twice as old as Jane. Five years ago she was 3 times as old as Jane. How old is Jane?
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Question 552967: Eva is 6 years older than her brother. In 4 years, Eva will be 26 more than the half of her brother's age. How old are they now?
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Question 553544: Give your own example of a function using a set of at least 4 ordered pairs. The domain will be any four integers between 0 and +10. The range will be any four integers between -12 and 5. Your example should not be the same as those of other students or the textbook. There are thousands of possible examples.
Explain why your example models a function. This is extremely important for your learning.

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Question 553553: Peter's age can be described as 2 more than 3 times his son's age. If his son's age is represented by the variable "s", write the algebraic expression representing Peter's age using "s
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Question 553456: Rollie is 7 years older than Pollie. 3 years ago, rollie was twice as old as pollie. find their present ages.
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Question 554267: The sum of 2 consecutive numbers is 79. Find the numbers
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Question 554442: A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?
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Question 554442: A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be the age of his sister?
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Question 555415: George is 3 years older than his sister Janet. In 7 years she will be six-sevenths of his age. How old is George?
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Question 555447: My question is on linear systems : Angie is twice as old as Amelie. One year ago the sum of their ages was 10. How old is each now? I tried a couple different systems like 2y=x and x+y = 10 but I kept trying to work it out with others to but I can't get it. Please help me! Thank you!
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Question 555585: Susan is 4/5 as old as Ronald. 4 years ago, she was 3/4 as old as Ronald. How old is each?

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Question 555616: Ana is three times as old as Rain. Four years form now she will be twice as old as Rain. How old are they now?
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Question 555638: The sum of anne's amd fred's ages are 28. in 7 years anne will be twice as old as fred. How old are the now?
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Question 555607: bruce is 38 years old, his son is 8 years old. In how many years will bruce be 3 times older than his son?
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Question 555745: sofia is 12 years older than her sister anna - maria. the product of their age is 540, how old is sofia
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Question 556012: bill is 4 times as old as john.five year ago the sum of their ages was 50 how old are they now
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Question 556012: bill is 4 times as old as john.five year ago the sum of their ages was 50 how old are they now
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