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Question 637257: Robin is planning a garden, she has spaces for 51 bulbs,she wants to plant 15 more tulips than darfoldils. How many of each bulb should she buy
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Question 637302: Write as an equation in a single variable. Identify the variable
The difference when a number z is subtracted from sixteen is two.
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Question 637338: My father is 4 times my age then the sum of our age is 70 what is our age
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Question 637353: a father 34 years older than his son tony.
their total ages is 54 years
how old will to tony be in 25 years time
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Question 637321: i am eight times older than my daughter now. in three years, i will be five times older than she is. how old am i?
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Question 637307: Hi,
Am trying to help my autistic boy and unfortunately am not very good with math. He has a Age Word Problem as below:

Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is equal to 4 times Bob's age who is half as old as Bridget. The average age of the 4 children is 8. Write this as an equation, then solve it.
I tried to work out the equations and came out with something as below:
A=Bill's age
B=Ben's age
C=Bob's age
D=Bridget's age
A + B = 4C
D = 2C
A + B + C + D = 32
When I tried to work out the values, am not coming up with a whole number as the answer. Also am getting an invalid age value for A and B as well. What am I doing wrong?
Any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Question 637325: simplify using disributive law 3(2f+4)
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Question 637327: mona took 3 minutes to complete a race and lydia required 3.5 minutes to run the same race. if mona's rate was 10 meters per minute more than lydias's rate, find their rates.
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Question 637479: Jack is married to Jill. their son, junior, asked each of them to reveal their ages. Juniors parents decided to tell him but in the form of a puzzle. Jack told Junior, "If you reverse the digits in my age, you'll get your mothers 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 minuet," said junior, "I cant figure out your ages with just those two clues"
"You're right" said Jack "Remember that I am older than you're mother."
What are the ages of Jack and Jill?
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Question 637476: Jack is married to Jill. their son, junior, asked each of them to reveal their ages. Juniors parents decided to tell him but in the form of a puzzle. Jack told Junior, "If you reverse the digits in my age, you'll get your mothers 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 minuet," said junior, "I cant figure out your ages with just those two clues"

"You're right" said Jack "Remember that I am older than you're mother."
What are the ages of Jack and Jill?
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Question 637635: How old are Edz and Noe now, if Edz is twice as old as Noe and the sum of their ages is 66? ITS MY QUIZ. PLEASE ANSWER :)
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Question 637661: four times the sum of the digits of a two-digit number is equal to the number.if digits are reserved, the resulting number is 27 greater than the original number. what is the number?

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Question 637410: 14. The present age of a father is equal to the sum of the ages of his 5 children. 12 years hence, the sum the ages of his children will be twice the ages of their father. Find the present age of the father.
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Question 637862: The combined age of a mother and her twin daughters is 58 years. The mother was 25 year old when the twins were born. Write and solve an equation to find the age of each of the three people.

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Question 638111: Christina is twice as old as Melissa. Janice is 4 years younger than Christina. If Melissa is y years old, how old is Janice? Find Janice's age and Christina age when y=8. I got stumped and hope this equation is right 2(y+4) Please help. Thanks
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Question 638224: In three more years, Katrina's mother will be six times as old as Katrina was last year. When Katrina's present age is added to his grandfather's present age, the total is 57. How old is each one now?
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Question 638254: Mary is now four times as her daughter.four years ago the product of their ages was 40 find their present ages. Thankyou
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Question 638357: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Saturday. There were more cheeseburgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Saturday?
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Question 638396: John's age is 3 years more than twice Bill's age. Three years ago John was 4 times as old as Bill was then. How old is Bill now?
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Question 638640: I am much older then my brother who's age is 10 years and much younger then my father who's age is 70 years. What is my age?
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Question 638649: the sum of the present ages of sheila and kristine is 42 years. in 9 years, sheila will be 4 years older than 2 times as old as kristine was 2 years ago. find their present ages.
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Question 638661: The sum of a fathers age and his son son's age is 100 years. Also, one-tenth of the product of their ages, in years exceeds the father's age by 180. How old is the son ?
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Question 638839: Please help me solve this word problem: Sarah is twice as old as Ben. Ben is 2 years older than Mike. The sum of their ages is 26. How old is each? (I labeled Sarah A, Ben B and Mike C. I tried to make a formula of B^2+(C+2)=26, but I have no idea where to go from there.)
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Question 639047: In 10 years time George will be y years old. How old was he 4 years ago?
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Question 639381: A boy is 5 years older than his sister and 1/6 as old as his father. The sum of there ages is 51. How old is father, son and daughter.
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Question 639425: the sum of claire's and hezron's ages are 50 years. in 2 1/2 years claire will be 5/6 of hezron's age. find there present ages
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Question 639522: dd
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Question 639825: Peter is three times as old as he was six years ago.How old is peter?
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Question 639880: James is twice as old as john,if 16 is added to john's age and 16 is subtracted from james age,their ages will then be equal.what are their present ages?
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Question 639891: what is the answer when we subtract 30 1/2 and 15 3/5
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Question 639991: sue lee had a garden that measured 10 feet bye 20 feet. during the next season she wanted to have twice the area in her garden so she doubled the length and doubled the width of her garden. explain why you agree or disagree with sue lee's solution. use diagrams and calculations to support your answer
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Question 640071: In two years I will be twice as old as I was five years ago." How old is she now?
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Question 640211: John is about as old in days as Jake is in weeks.
John is also as many months as Jim is in years.
Together, the 3 of them are 140 years old.
How old is Jim?

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Question 640622: 1.Jennifer is twice as old as Ramon. The sum of their ages 7 yrs ago was 13. How old are they now?
2. A vending machine contains nickels and dimes worth $14.50. There are 95 more nickels than dimes. How many nickels and how many dimes are there?
3. The perimeter of a standard high school basketball court is 268 ft. The length is 34 ft greater than the width. Find the length and the width of the court.
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Question 640733: alma is 36 years old.she was twice as old as annie when alma was as old as annie is now.how old is annie
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Question 640177: Debbies age is 27. Which is 6 less than 3 times mickeys age. how old is mickey?
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Question 641162: Ken is 1 year less than twice as old as his sister. If the sum of their ages is 14.
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Question 335870: One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child�s age and eldest child�s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?
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Question 641260: jasmin is 3 years younger than allan. If the sum of their ages is 53,how old are they now?
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Question 641651: Sandra's brother is 6 years older than her, her sister is 2 years younger than her, and her mother is 3 times her age. Her brother, sister, and mother's combined age is 64. Write an equation to solve for Sandra's age.
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Question 641691: Demola is two years older than Deji and Tobi is half of Demola's age.The sum of their ages is 23.How old is Deji.
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Question 641686: After 15 yrs, Salma will be four times as old as she is now. Determine her present age.

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Question 641688: Lucas was 50 years old when his granddaughter was born. Now he is two years more than four times his granddaughter's age. How old is his granddaughter now?
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