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Question 707703: Maria's age is 15 year less than orldando's age. The sum of their ages is 29 what their ages?
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Question 707745: Jacob's father is 54 years old. His age is 6 years more than three times Jacob's age. Write a math sentence to determine Jacob's age (a), and then solve to determine Jacob's age.
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Question 708112: Kathy is 20 years older than Carol. In 6 years, the sum of their ages will be 50. How old is each now?
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Question 708183: When i was 4 years old my sister was half my age... Now am 100 years. How old is my
sister?
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Question 708306: A man and his wife have three children, John, Ben and Mary.
The difference between their parents' ages is the same as between John and Ben
and between Ben and Mary.
The ages of John and Ben, multiplied together, equals the age of the father.
The ages of Ben and Mary multiplied together equals the age of the mother.
The combined ages of the family amounts to 90 years.
What is the age of each person?
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Question 708572: In Six years, Sam will be older than he is now by half his current age. Expressed in years, what is Sam's current age?
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Question 708763: Dingdong is 15 years older than Marian. Then years ago, he was twice as old as MArian. Find their age.
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Question 708800: at the present time a man is four times as old as his son six years ago he was 10 times as old.
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Question 708812: Paul is K years old; and his father is 3 times his age. How old is Paul's father?
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Question 708814: Paul is K years old; and his father is 3 times his age. How old is Paul's father?
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Question 709185: A mother is thrice as old as her son. Six years from now, she will be forty-four years more than one-third her son will then be. How old is the mother now?
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Question 709151:
Sharon is three times as old as her daughter. If Sharon is 32 years older than her daughter, what are their ages?
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Question 709318: Plz here is my question:
The sum of the ages of a mother and her daughter are 44,3 years ago the product of their age was 192. How old is d daughter now?
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Question 709263: Mr olanrewaju bought tea at #2.20 per kg and mixed it with twice as much tea which he bought at #2.00 per kg.He sold the mixture at #2.40 per kg gaining #40.00 in the transaction.Find how many kg of each kind of tea he bought?
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Question 709348: Maria is now four times as old as Kate. Four years ago, Maria was six times as old as Kate. Find each of their actual ages now.

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Question 709385: A woman is three times as old as her daughter. In eleven years she will be twice as old as her daughter. Write an equation representing this information and solve it to find the daughter's present age.
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Question 709412: dave is 12 years old. his age is 2 more than half the age of steven. find steven's age.
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Question 709436: pete is 14 years old and his mother is 39 in how many years will petes mother be exactly twice as old as pete
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Question 709424: Solve for w: p=2L+2W
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Question 709493: Mary is 9 years older than Seth. In a year she will be 3 times as old as he is. How old are they?
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Question 709469:

If us population is 315,259,986 and the world population is 7,063,672,785 what fraction of the world's population lives in the US
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Question 709552: tony is 4 years older than julia. the sum of their ages are their ages is 30. how old are they?

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Question 709603: sum of ages is 6 if the older ages 4 more than the younger how old are they

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Question 709987: a man is 19 years older than his son and their ages total 31. find the age of each
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Question 710087: a father is 4 times as old as his son he will be 3 times as old as his child in 5 years what are their present ages?
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Question 710071: Joel is 8 yrs. younger than his brother. If the sum of their age is 42, how old are they now?
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Question 710106: John is 3 times as old as martha, Seven years ago the sum of their ages was 54. How old are they now
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Question 710515: a man is 56 years old and his is 24 years old in how many years the father will be twice as old as his son at that time?
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Question 710709: Kathy is 12 years younger than Jed. If the sum of their ages is 42, how old is Kathy?
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Question 710711: A character is criticized for marrying a woman when he is 3 times her age. He wittily replies, "Ah but in 20 years time I shall only be twice her age." How old are the man and the woman
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Question 710735: In two years time I will be 3 times as old as I am now? How old am I?
How do you work this out? and what is the answer?
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Question 710763: Brad is 7 years older than Pedro. Six years ago Pedro's age was three-fourths of Brad's age at that time. Find the present ages of Brad and Pedro.
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Question 710892: Anne is twice the age of Jim. In six years, their ages will total 60. How old is each now? I tried doing it but this came out:
A+J+6+6=60
A+J+12=60
A+J=48
2J+J=48 (because A=2J)
3J=48
J=12, A=24, but it's wrong!
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Question 710911: Three years ago Jane was three times as old as Billy. Now she is only twice as old as him. How old is Billy now?
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Question 711106: jeff is 10 years old and is brother is 2 years old. in how many years will jeff be twice as old as his brother ?
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Question 711188: five less than seven 6 is ..............?
what a method to solve this question
Answer of this question is 37. How to solve it i don't know

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Question 711181: alan has x cents. bertie has three times as much as alan. carol has 2 cents more than bertie. they have 51 cents altogether. how much does each of them have?
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Question 711349: the combined age of 3 sisters is 40.if louise is 2 yrs older than sarah. and rebecca is 8 yrs older than sarah.how old is each girl
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Question 711390: At a certain point in his life (time 3), Arnold had an age with the second digit being three and with the square of the first digit being his actual age reversed. Earlier in his life, (time 2) Arnold had a father who was twice as old as he was. Twenty five years prior to that (time 1) the ratio of Arnold�s age to his father�s age was one to three.
Your tasks are to determine how old Arnold was at each of the 3 times identified in the problem:
time 1,
time 2, and
time 3.
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Question 711495: A father is four times as old as his son and his daughter is five years younger than her brother. If their combined age is 73 years, find the age of each.
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Question 711598: Amy is twice as old as Lucy. Three years from now the sum of their ages will be 42. How old is Amy?
Please show steps clearly. I want to understand the process.
Thank you.
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Question 711597: a father tells his son -"i was of your present age when you were born.the father is now 36 years old.how old was his son 5 years ago?

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