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Question 137173: Jack is 15 years old, and his sister, Jane is 5 years old. In how many years will jack be twice as old as Jane?
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Question 137612: Five years ago, a man was seven times as old as his niece was at the time. Ten years from now the man will be twice as old as his niece will be. Find the present ages of the man and of the girl.
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Question 137916: Jim's age is 4 years less than 3 times Fred's age, if Fred's age is doubled and added to Jim's age the result is 56. How old are Jim and Fred?
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Question 130825: The sum of Carl's and Patricia's ages is 30. Thirteen years ago, Patricia was three times as old as Carl. How old is each now.
This is one of the many questions on my homework assignment. I have no clue how to figure out these problems. Please help me learn to set it up correctly.
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Question 138992: A paleontologist discovers a fossil and wishes to determine its age. This can be done by measuring the amount of carbon-14 that is contained in the fossil. It is known that the decay of carbon-14 can be modeled with the exponential decay function . The paleontologist discovers that the fossil contains 70% of its original amount of carbon-14. Assume that the half-life of carbon-14 is 5600 years and determine the age of the fossil.
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Question 138969: The Bold One is 3 times The Timid One's age. in 12 years, The Bold One will be 2 times the Timid One's age. How old is the Timid One now?
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Question 139436: Bernie is the oldest of the four Bryant brothers. Bobby is twice as old as Billy, but 2 years younger then Bernie. Bernie is twice as old as Buddy. The youngest Bryant brother is 6 years old. What are the ages of the four Bryant brothers?
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Question 139492: 1. The sum of the ages of John and Jacob is 20 years. Two years from now , one will be thrice as old as the other then. Find their present ages.
2. The sum of the ages of Manny and Dennis is 47 years. Seven years ago, Manny was twice as old as Dennis was then. How old is each now?
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Question 139565: when grandpa was over fifty but less than eighty, he told a friend, "each of my sons has as many sons as brothers, and the number of my years is exactly that of the number of all my sons and grandsons." how many sons and grandsons does grandpa have?
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Question 140226: I need an equation for this problem, the sum of the present ages of Eric and his father is 58 years. In 10 years his father will be twice as old as Ericwill be at that time. Find their present ages.
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Question 140380: Aunt Amelia had been a good schoolteacher in the days of the little red schoolhouse, and she still remembered.
"That's a big secret, but you can figure it out if you really want to know, she told Tony in reply to his question. If you switch the two figures of my age, reverse their order, you'll get a third of what my age was five years ago. You try!"

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Question 140756: Brad is nine more than two times as old as Ben. In 15 years the sum of their ages will be 96. How old is Brad now?
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Question 140752: zelma is eighteen years older than her son. she was three times as old as he was one year ago. how old are they now?
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Question 141367: How do I solve by using two equations in two variables?
Larry is 8 years older than his sister. In 3 years, he will be twice as old as she is now. How old are they now?
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Question 141426: When I was 8 years old my father was 32 years old, which was four times my age. Now he is twice my age. How old am I?
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Question 141526: Mary is five years older than two times Katie's age. If Mary is 29,how old is Katie?
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Question 141728: Hi I really need help here!
The sum of Elisa's ageand Ira's age is 47. Ira's age is 5 years less than three times Elia's age. How old are Ira and Elisa?
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Question 142188: Mr.Chase is 6 years older than 4 times his daughters age. in 7 years, he will be triple her age. How old will Mr.Chase be in 9 years?
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Question 141915: 2 years from now Jorge will be 3 times as old as maria is now. In ten years from Jorge will be 4 times as old as maria is now
What are Jorges's and Maria's ages now?
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Question 143338: PLS. HELP ME WITH THIS problemS. ASAP
~peter's age 13 yrs. ago of his age was 1/3 of his age 7 years hence. how old is peter?
~a man is 41 yrs. old and in 7 yrs. he will be four times as old as his son is at that time. how old is his son?

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Question 143421: Mary is thress times as old as her son. in 12 years, marys age will be 1 year less than twice her son's age. how old is each now
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Question 144256: john is 3 times the age his son will be next year. his wife is 20 years older than her son is this year. there combined ages total 71. how old is each person.
this is a puzzle which my father and i cant agree on. we are both mathamatically minded but disagree about the answer. he says it must be possible to answer using algebra and came up with ,john 31, wife 30 and son 10. my point is in the first sentence (sons age +1)x 3 he worked on the basis (sons age x 3) +1, here we disagree. i have tried various routes to the answer assuming there is some sort of trickery in the wording but cannot find an answer other than (son 9 now therefore could be 11 at some point next year) (therefore dad could be 33)(mother 20 years older than son is this year could be 9+20=29)therefore totalling 71. i would be dissapointed if there were no logical mathamatical answer and that it just word trickery. i would rather be wrong than dissapointed.
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Question 144468: A man and his brother have a combined age of 48 years. 12 years ago, the man was 5 times as old as his brother. How old is the man? How old is the brother?

'a' represents the man's age now. Type in an equation that solves for 'a'.
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Question 144721: A DOUBLE BIRTHDAY:
"Your birthday today and also your son's! That's amazing. How old is he now?"
Bob smiled. "I'll tell you with fractions. One over his age, plus one over my age, makes one over seven. That's one-seventh, of course."
So what were their respective ages?
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Question 144771: James is five years old now and Emma is four years older.
Form a relevant equation and use it to find out how many years it will take until James' and Emma's ages in years, multiplied together, make 725 years.
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Question 144847: the sum of the ages of petra and her mother is 45. her mother is 9 years more than twice as old as petra. how old are petra and her mother
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Question 145106: if 7 is subtracted from twice a number, the result is 5. find the number.
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Question 145105: patrick is 3 years older than amy. in 5 years the sum if thier ages will be 31. how old are they now?
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Question 145583: Karl is seven times as old as Jane, but in six years he will be only three teims as old. Find the age of each now.
7x+x = 3x+x+6?
But I get the answer of 1.5 years old and it doesn't come out right.
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Question 145695: I need help with this please Ann's age is seven-tenths of Bill's age.IN 4 years Ann's age will be eight-elevenths of Bill's age. how old is Bill now?
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Question 145857: Ann is 6 years older than Mary. She is also twice as old as Mary is when Ann was as old as Mary is now. How old is each girl?
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Question 146022: I am learning chapter 3 section 6, which is on "steps for solving word problems". The objective of the section is "to learn the four basic steps for solving word problems, and, to solve word problems involving one number".
I have already learned the four-step approach: read, plan, solve, and interpret; however, I have gotten completely lost int number 14. The problem i am having difficulty writting into an equation is under the "written exercises" section "a".
The directions given for problems 1-20 are: Solve each word problem.
I assume immediately to use what I have learned so far in the chapter, the four-step approach: read, plan, solve, and interpret. All problems numbers 1-13 where a breeze; I rewrote the word problem, read it over again, iscolated the single variable, solved, reread the problem checked my equation, and plugged my answer into the equation to make sure my answer was correct. But when I got to number fourteen I was completely lost. The problem is:
14) Eight times Betty's age increased by 3 times her age is 110. How old is Betty?

My shown work:
14) Eight times Betty's age increased by 3 times her age is 110. How old is Betty?
Let b = age of Betty

After that point I have no knowledgeable decision as of what to do next, and whether or not I am working this out properly. If anyone could help me figure out what I am probably doing wrong, or what I should do next in order to completely solve this equation, that would be wonderful, thank you so much in advance, I hope I gave enough information for better understanding of the question and everything in context. Thank you.
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Question 146088: Annilee's present age is two-thirds of jessie's present age. in 12 years the sum of their ages will be 54 years. Find their present ages.
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Question 146108: Jack is twice as old as Jill. In 10 years, Jill's age will be 3/4 of jack's age. How old are they now.

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Question 146108: Jack is twice as old as Jill. In 10 years, Jill's age will be 3/4 of jack's age. How old are they now.

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Question 146669: Five divas waltzed into our church one Sunday.
Each one of them dressed to the nines.
Niecy, Maria, Marissa, Jacqueline, and Clementine.
Niecy beats Maria's age twice, so it undeniably appears.
Clementine and Jacqueline lag behind Niecy by seven years.
Maria is exactly two years more than Marissa's age thrice.
Tell me how old is each diva, if twenty-two years lie between the five.
Getting stuck on the between part. is it between as in (x-y), or a mean value?
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Question 146992: Dad is 4 times as old as his son Jim. In ten years, Dads age will be twenty years more than twice Jims age. Find thier age now?

thank you
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Question 147025: MArcos is 7 years older than his sister, Rosa. The sum of their ages is 1 less than 3 tomes Rosa's age. How old is each?
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Question 147026: MArcos is 7 years older than his sister, Rosa. The sum of their ages is 1 less than 3 tomes Rosa's age. How old is each?
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Question 147026: MArcos is 7 years older than his sister, Rosa. The sum of their ages is 1 less than 3 tomes Rosa's age. How old is each?
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Question 147061: Harry is 4 years older then Marvin. In six years Marvin will be 5/6 as old as Harry. How old is each boy?
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Question 147126: the total age of amy bea and cea is 10w years old amy is 2w years old bea is as old as cea
what is ceas age in terms of w
if w=4 how old is cea
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Question 147217: The ages of a man and his son are 40 and 12 respectively.Find:
> how many years ago was the man's age eight times the age of his son?
> how many years hence will the age of man be thrice the age of his son?
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Question 147225: Harry is 4 years older than Marvin. In six years Marvin will be 5/6 as old as Harry. How old is each boy? Now, I think the equation should have been 4 + 5/6 = 6 + 5/6.
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