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Question 765707: beth's age is 3 times sue's age. jill is twice as old as sue. the sum of their age is 30. how old is each girl?

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Question 765908: A man is four time as old as his som the different between their ages is 36 years. Find the sum of their ages.
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Question 761959: two whole numbers in the ratio of 2:5.if their difference is 66.Find the whole numbers?
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Question 765927: Q.5 When I was born, my mother was 23 years of age. After 6 years, when my sister was born, my

father was 34 years of age. what is the difference between the ages of my parents?
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Question 766033: Suzie is five years older than her brother, Michael. Write an expression to represent the sum of their ages of Michael's age is represented by x
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Question 766112: 1. A man is 10 years older than his wife who is now 2.5 times as old as their daughter. The daughter is now 14 years old. What was the man�s age when the daughter was born?
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Question 766194: Frank is four times as old as his brother. The difference in their ages is 24. How old is each?

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Question 766157: today i am 6 years less than half my father's age. in 6 years i will be 6 years more than one third my father's age. how old was my father when i was born?
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Question 765356: a sofa is 12 yrs. old as teble is 36 yrs. old . in how many years will the table be twice as old as sofa

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Question 766466: Allen is 4 yr older than his brother Randy. Three years ago, Allen was twice as old as Randy. How old is each now? Please solve using system of equations if possible please.
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Question 766411: A woman is twice as old as her daughter was when she was as old as her daughter is now. When her daughter is as old as she is now, their combined ages will be 180. How old are they now?
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Question 766388: The sum of the ages of a father and his son is 40 years.If they both live until the son becomes as old as the father is now, the sum of their ages will be 96 years . Find their present ages.
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Question 766589: Please help me solve this problem "Average age of 4 men, 4 years ago was 49 years. After 4 year a man of age 42 join them. Now what is average age?"
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Question 766590: My brother says he has an equal number of brothers and sisters
and my sister says she has twice as many brothers than she has sisters.
How many boys and how many sisters.
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Question 766601: In 6 hours Renu walks 6 km more than Kopila walks in 3 hours and in 8 hours Kopila walks 12 km more than renu walks in 9 hours .Find their speed in km per hour.
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Question 766591: Please help me solve this puzzle "If there are 3 switches outside the room corresponding to 3 bulbs inside the room, how will you know which switch belong to which bulb. Only once you can enter in room."
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Question 766567: The ratio of the ages of A and B ten years ago was 3:5. If the ratio of their present ages is 2:3 how old is B today?
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Question 766748: Mr. tanaka is 35 years old and his son is 5. In how many years will Mr. Tanaka be three times as old as his son
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Question 766810: Mary is 20year and Alice 40year use equation to find their common age.
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Question 766799: A father is 3 years old as his son. In 12 years he will be twice as old as his son. How old is the fathr and son?

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Question 766772: Mother tells he daughter, I was your present age when you were born. The mother is 36 years age now, how old was the daughter five years back
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Question 766761: Meera is now 10 years older than her twin brothers.After 3 years from now,thrice her age will be four times the sum of her brothers age then.find meera's present age
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Question 766858: Eight students of average 13 years leave a class of 30 students of average age 15 years. If seven new students of average 12 years join the class, find the present average age of the students in the class
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Question 766917: Ram will be 5 times as old as he is now after 8 years .how many years hence will he be 10 times as old as he is now.
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Question 766991: A man is 4 times as old as her daughter. After 16 years, he will be twice as old as his daughter. find daughter's age.
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Question 767035: Mrs. Cruz is 40 years old and her eldest daughter is 12. When will she be twice as old as her eldest daughter?
Please help me. thanks!
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Question 767001: A man's age is three times his son's age. Ten years ago he was five times his son's age. By forming two equations and solving them simultaneously, find both of their ages.
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Question 767293: I am taking a statistics class. My problem is....
The average (or mean)for 10 adults in a room is 35yo. A 32 yo enters the room now. Can you find the new average age for the 11 adults?
My textbook has the answer of 34.727 but I cannot figure out how it was found?
Please help!
Chrissy Long
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Question 767377: Timon and pumba are brothers , pumba is 3 times older as timon in 5 years pumba will be twice timons age how old are they now

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Question 766996: A father is four times older than his son. However,20 years later, he will only be twice as old as the son.What is the father's present age?
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Question 767522: jack is 6 years older than Jill. If four years ago Jack was 3 years less than twice Jill's age, how old is Jill now?
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Question 767557: chris is two years old and jenny is 4 years old.In how many years will Jenny be 7 years younger?
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Question 767604: A father is twice as old as his son 12 years ago the father was 4 times as old as the son was then - determine the present age
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Question 767663: Mary Beth's age is 3 times the age of her sister Ellen. Ellen is now 4 years old. How old will they both be whe Mary Beth is only twice the age of Ellen?
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Question 767636: andrea and alexis are twins. they have a brother who is eleven years older than they are and a brother who is four years younger. the sum of the ages of all four children is 35. write an equation to finds sisters age.
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Question 767867: the research department of a company that manufactures children's fruit drinks is experimenting with a new flavor. a 17.5% fructose solution is needed but only 10%and 20% solutions are available. How many Galons of the 10% fructose solution should be mixed with the 20% fructose solution to obtain 20 gallons of 17.5% fructose solution?
(please put the problem in system equation form which is {Ax+By=z
Gx+Hy=c before you compute them. thank you

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Question 767870: A motel in Florida charges $90 per day for double occupancy and $80 for single occupancy. If 80 rooms are occupied for a total of $6930, how many rooms of each kind are occupied?.(please put the problem in system equation form which is {Ax+By=z
Gx+Hy=c
before you compute them.
thank you

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Question 767871: A company that manufactures boxes recently purchased $2000 worth of new equipment to offer gift boxes to its customers. the cost of producing a package of gift boxes is $1.50 and it is sold for $4.00. Find the number of packages that must be sold for the company to break even.
please put the problem in system equation form which is {Ax+By=z
Gx+Hy=c before you compute them. thank you

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Question 767966: The difference of the ages of two brothers is 4 years and the product of their ages is221.Find the ages of the two brothers
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Question 768011: In a family of 21 people, the average is 14 years. If the age of the grand father is not counted, the average age drops to 12 years. What is the age of the grand father?
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Question 767957: what is the age of father if his age is da of 4 chlidern and chliden ages are consective
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Question 768205: Tabitha and Dara have been diving a number of years that is half of the age of Dara. Dara is 3 years older than Tabitha. The total of their ages is 33. How old is Tabitha? How old is Dara? ____________ How long have they been diving?
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Question 768341: shyam was 12 years old y years ago. Represent his age b years from now :
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