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Question 562871: Sue is twice as old as Emma and 7 years older than Abby. The sum of their ages is 53. How old is each?
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Question 562871: Sue is twice as old as Emma and 7 years older than Abby. The sum of their ages is 53. How old is each?
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Question 562919: Stephanie's age is three years more than twice Bill's age. Stephanie is nine years older than Bill. How old is Stephanie? How old is Bill?
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Question 562498: A father is four times as old as his daughter. In 6 years, he will be three times as old as she is. How old is the daughter now?
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Question 562313: Alex's age is 3 year more than twice Vincent's age. in 4 years, the sum of their age is 58.

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Question 563244: The sum of Bill's and Ted's age is 34 years. Five years ago the sum of twice Bill's and three times Ted's age was 59 years. How old are they now?
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Question 563572: Eight years ago, Heather was twice as old as her brother David. Today she is 13 years older than him. How old is she?
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Question 563466: David is the age of 58 and Lisa is the age of 18. How long ago was David 5 times the age of Lisa.
Logically, I know the answer is 8 years ago since David would have been 50 and Lisa would have been 10 and 5*10 =50 which five times her age.
However, I need to come with this answer in an algebraic method and I've been wracking my brain over it.
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Question 564170: jack had $69 and wilson had $21 at first. they donated a sum of money to charity and paid the amount equally. after that, Jack had 4 times as much money left as wilson. how much was the sum of money donated?
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Question 564186: How old are the twins, when the product of their age and their older brother is 3332?

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Question 564311: A women has 3 daughters, the product of their ages equals 36, what are their ages?
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Question 564645: Renee is twice as old as Dana. Four years ago, Renee was three times as old as Dana. How old are Renee and Dana now?
I tried Dana's age times 2= Renee's age now.
Then Dana times 3 - 4 = Renee's age four years ago.
I think I am missing something in my formula

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Question 564775: Tina is eight years older than Dyan. Five years hence, she will be twice as old. How old are they at present?

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Question 564797: Last year,tom was thrice as old as his sister.next year,he will be twice as old as his sister.what will be tom's age when his sister is 12 years old?
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Question 565253: george's father is 4 times as old as george. george is 2 years older than his brother tim.george's father is 36.how old is tim?

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Question 565383: John's age increased by 11 is 5 less than 5 times his age. How old is he?
If x represents John's age, which of the following equations could be used to solve this problem?
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Question 565430: Karl's and Eddie's ages added together are equal to 65. Ten years ago, Karl was twice as old as Eddie. How old are they now ?
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Question 565512: James is 19 times as old as Bill. Frank is 30 Years younger than James. In 6 Years James' age will be twice the sum of bill and Frank's ages then. How old is James?
I'm getting a funny answer and would like to consult
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Question 565943: sana is senior to mona by 18 years. after 6 years sana will be twice as old as mon. find mona's present age?
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Question 565377: A mother is twice as old as her daughter. 8 yrs from now she will be twenty yrs. than her daughter. how old is mother now?
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Question 565367: Ruby is thrice as old as Jade. Jade is 4 years older than Pearl. In ten years Ruby will be 2 years more than twice as old as Jade will then be. How old are they now?
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Question 566003: olan is 3 years older than his sister rose. 1/2 of olan's age is 13 years more than 1/4 his sister's age one year ago. find their ages now.
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Question 566006: Elmer is thrice as old as Ruel. in 4 years, elmer will be 2 years more than twice as old as ruel will be. find their present ages.
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Question 566001: mr. santos is 30 years older than his son. how old are the father and the son if the father is 15 yeaRS less than 4 times as old as his son.
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Question 566103: If Leah is 6 years older than sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is sue?
I don't really need the answer I need help with the formula to get the answer, can some one show how to do this?
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Question 566620: Alfred is three times as old as his brother.Six years ago, the sum of their ages was equal to Alfred's present age.How old are they now?thank you!

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Question 566715: Benilda is one year older than twice her sister's age. The difference of their ages is 18. How old is Benilda?
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Question 566776: Son is 1/4 his fathers age and will be 1/6 fathers age in 4 years.
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Question 566811: 2 boys xombined age 66 one is 6 years older, how old are they
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Question 567094: Jon says: When I add 7 times my age 7 years from now to 11 times my age 11 years from now, I get 20 times my current age. How old will I be 5 years from now?
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Question 567063: Kim is 3 times as old as she was 2 years ago.How old is she now?

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Question 567210: A boat takes 2 hours to go 50 KM from A to B down the stream. But the return journey from B to A. It take 3 hours. Find the uniform speed of the boat in still water and the uniform speed the stream. (Ans. 125/6 KM/H and 25/6 KM/H)
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Question 567217: The ratio of a two-digit number and the number and the number obtained by interchanging the digits is 4:7. If the difference of the digits is 3. Find the number. (Ans. 36)
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Question 567212: In a three-digit number, the digit at the hundreds place is three times the digit at the ones place and the sum of the digits is 15. If the digits are reversed, the number is reduced by 396. Find the number (Ans. 672)
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Question 567227: Rose is 29 Years old. Her mother is 50. How many years ago was the mother twice as old as Rose?
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Question 567574: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. If the digits are reversed, the number formed bears the ratio 3:8 to the original number. Find the original number (Ans. 77)
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Question 567656: marilyn is three years younger than her friend rosie. in seven years the product of their ages will be 2 less than six times the product of their ages five years ago. how ald are each at present
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Question 567922: Two years ago, Anton was three times as old as his sister, Nathalie. In 4 years, he will be only twice his sister's age. Find their present ages.
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Question 567933: Please Help with my Maths Problem,I cannot seem to understand.
Mary lives in the middle of a large garden. One day she decides to cut as many flowers as her age in years. Then each day, she cuts as many flowers as the day before. On the fifth day, following the same rule, she prepares a huge bouquet that has many flowers as her grandma's age in years. Mary's grandma is 60 years older than Mary.
How many flowers as Mary cut altogether.
Please show all workings as Maths equation.
My work out:
Marys age is x
Day 1: we assumed she cut 2 flowers and multiplied it by two each day which gave us 62 and subtracted it by 60 to give her age 2.
Thank you.
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Question 567885: a father is twice older than his son and the sum of their ages is 48.How old is each?
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Question 568337: Can you please help me with this problem? "Six years ago, Josie was 5 times as old as her niece, Dianne. How old is Dianne now if her age is one-third that of her aunt's.
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Question 568506: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 10. If the digits are reversed, the number is increased by 72. What is the original number?
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Question 568729: Both digits are the same. It is less than 50. The sum of its digits is 6
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