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Question 716765: Mary's mother is 4 times the age of Mary. The difference of the ages are 28 how old are they?
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Question 716764:

five years ago Eric was 16 years old. how old will he be in 2 years time?

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Question 717383: Ten years ago, Mr.Lamb was eleven years older than half of Ms. Bakey's age today. In seven years, he will be fourteen years older than Ms. Bakey now. What are their current age?
In order to solve this question , I have to create 2 equations, the first one I have tried making. This is what I made:
Let x represent Mr. Lamb's age now.
Let y represent Ms. Bakey's age now.
x-10= 1/2y + 11
Can you help me make the 2nd equation and solve.
Thanks you.
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Question 717744: Jan is 8 years older than Natalie. If the sum of their ages is 42, find their ages.
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Question 717828: I was 9 years old when I told a friend I was half a man, so he started calling me point 5. Now that I've turned 10 what would I be in decipals if 18 is a man? I said point 8
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Question 717974: can you help me with this problem?
In 4 years, Nan will be 3 times as old as Dan will be then. The sum of their ages now is 56
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Question 717963: Three years ago meg was 16 years old, if her current age is 1/3 of that of her dad's what is her dads abe?
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Question 717408: Jose is 12 years older than Maria. The sum of their ages is 40. How old is Maria? How old is Jose?
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Question 718017: There five times as many boys as girls at the game and three times as many children as adults. How many where girls if there are a total of 104 people?

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Question 717992: father's age =2 times sons age nd 3times daughters age=fathers age nd total of all of them ages=90 give solution
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Question 718036: Tom's age is twice as that of Jerry's. If N represents Jerry's age. What is Tom's age?
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Question 718054: Arturo's age is two years more than four times Allen's age. How old will Allen and Arturo be, three years from now?
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Question 718093: A boy is 12 years old. His mother is four times as old as he is. In x years time, the mother will be three times as old as the son. find x.
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Question 718085: in 10 years a baby will be 6 times as old as it is now find the present age of baby
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Question 718099: what is the sum of (7x+16y)+(-17x+15y)

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Question 718087: sunny has some 10 rupee coins and some 5 rupee coins. He has 3 five rupee coins more than the number of 10 rupee coins. if he has a total of Rs.135, how many coins of each variety has he got
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Question 718091: the area of a rectangular room is 84sq m. if the breath of the room is 5m less than its length, find the perimeter of the room
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Question 718053:
Arturo's age is two years more than four times Allen's age. How old are Allen and Arturo respectively, if the sum of their ages is 32?
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Question 718118:
Ahmad is twice as old as Bobby. John is 7 years younger than Ahmad. If the sum of their ages is 38, how old are the three boys?
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Question 718078: Code name KND no. 130 has to transmit some information to the moon base from the earth headquarters located in Rome. To keep it safe from the adults the agent codes it multiple times using different techniques. The information to be transmitted is a word which can be found somewhere in this problem. The final code is as follows.
78 77 83 98 91 79 74 77 86 __ __
One thing you should remember while trying to solve a math series is that math skills are generally not that important, but rather a vulture�s eye is required to get a strong hold on the unusual, yet a craziest of the logical minds is. Keep this in mind and try to complete the sequence with the appropriate number:
201315, 71280, 9253, 212, ?
Complete the following sequence. Sometimes you need to scratch your brains from bottom to top and then all the way around to get it to work. So be ready to scratch it now as the following sequence will force you to do it. Complete the following sequence:
10111111011110111110111____1111
numbers are missing in the sequence be filled with only 0 or 1.

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Question 718408: Will is 4 years older than Phil. Three years from now, Will will be twice as old as Phil was last year. Find the present ages.
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Question 718737: One-half of Bob's age plus one-third of Terry's age is 24. One-fifth of Bob's age less one-ninth of Terry's age is three. How old is Terry?
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Question 719104: John's age plus 7 will equal his brother's age of 19. How old is John?
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Question 719105: the sum of the ages of father and his son his is 40 years. if they both live on till the son becomes as old as father is now , the sum of thier ages will be 96 years. find thier present ages
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Question 719135: Rena is 6 years older than her younger sister. After 1 0 years, the sum of their ages will be 50 years. Find their present ages.

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Question 719155: Lisa is 16 years younger than Andy. In 6 years,the sum of their ages is 42. How old is Lisa now?
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Question 719261: Scott's age is 1/3 his age plus 6 years, how old is Scott?
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Question 719264: Nancy is 2 less than twice the age of Sara. The sum of their ages is 28.
A) Write a system of equations that can be used to solve this problem.
B) Solve the system of equations to tell you how old Nancy and Sara each are.
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Question 719374: A FATHER IS NOW 7 TIMES AS OLD AS HIS SON. IN 5 YEARS, HE WILL BE 4 TIMES AS OLD AS HIS SON WILL BE THEN. WHAT ARE THEIR PRESENT AGES?
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Question 719656: David is 3 years older than his brother John. Three years ago John's age was 6 more than one-forth of david's age. what are their present ages ?
thank you

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Question 719797:

2x-45-1x=42100
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Question 719847: Mrs Sims always claims to be five years younger than she really is. What is her real age if two and a half times her real age is three times her claimed age?

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Question 720053: tom is 5 years old, his dad is 5 x toms age. in how many years time will tom be half his fathers age
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Question 720090: Q: The sum of the ages of a boy and his mother is 48. If the mother is three more than twice the
boy�s age, find the difference in the ages of the boy and his mother? (in the topic of simultaneous equations)
I have already figured out that B(boy) + m(mother) = 48 and that m=2b+3
thanks :)
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Question 720047: Gail practices swimming for 1 1/4 hours every day.
How much time does she practice in a week? In 5 weeks?
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Question 720106: The denominator of a fraction is greater than the numerator by 8. If the numerator is increased by 17 and denominator is decreased by 1, the number obtained is 3/2, find the fraction.
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Question 720107: My mother is 12 years more than twice my age. After 8 years, my mother�s age will be 20 years less than three times my age. Find my age and my mother�s age.
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Question 720190: Kirsten has 64 coins in her piggy bank. She has $9.25 in dimes and quarters. How many dimes and how many quarters does she have?
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Question 720121: A MOTHER IS 6 TIMES AS OLD AS HIS SON AND THREE TIMES AS OLD AS HIS DAUGHTER. IF THE DAUGHTER IS 5 YEARS OLDER THAN THE

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Question 720183: Forty members of a parent's organization are making candles to raise money. One member drops out and the rest have to make 3 more candles each to make up. Each member makes the same number of candles. How many candles do they make altogether?
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Question 720286: What is bigger 32 hours or 1 1/4 days?

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Question 720367: traci is 5years younger than her sister. the sum of their ages is 49. how old is traci?
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Question 720459: The question reads name 3 solutions forbthe inequality then graph on number line the equation says p is greater than 18.
This is my grandson math question and I need help I can't figure it out?
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