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Question 822267: [ Joel is 8 year older than Karen, and Karen is twice as old as Lina. If Lina is z years old, how old is Joel in terms of z? ]
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Question 822267: [ Joel is 8 year older than Karen, and Karen is twice as old as Lina. If Lina is z years old, how old is Joel in terms of z? ]
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Question 822461: Taylor is 18 years older than Jeniffer. In four years Taylor will be 3 times as old as Jeniffer. What are there ages now ?
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Question 822582: The present age of a man is 7x years and that of his son is (2x-1) years. When the man was (x square - 5) years old, his son was (x+1) years. Then present age of his son is-
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Question 822452: Matt buys 4 times as many bearings as decks, and 2 less than three times as many wheels as decks. If he buys 46 items altogether, how many of each does he get?
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Question 822611: Mary is older than Henry and younger than Jean. Mary is younger than Karen. Jean is older than Tom and younger than Mark. Tom is older than Mary. Who is the youngest?
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Question 822565: the difference between a mother's age and the sum of her two daughter age is 6 years the avarege age of two daughter is 22. what is the age of mother
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Question 822569: sum of present age of 10 student's is 100 year. what is the average age of students 5 year ago??
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Question 821025: The ages of moe and joe now total 49 years. Moe's age now is twice the age that joe was when moe's age was the same as joe's is now. how old are moe and joe now?
I've tried doing this but I get mixed up when I get to the second sentence.
Thank you!
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Question 820201: Six teenagers get together to plan a party together. The product of their ages was 13071240. Find the sum of their ages?
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Question 820291: Can a person born in 1926 have grandparents who married in 1885?
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Question 822831: Please help me solve this word problem
Quinn is twice as old as Karl and four years older than Parker the sum of their ages is 21. How old is Parker? Thank you!
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Question 823192: Enrique is 61 and his niece Zoe is 7. In how many years will Zoe be one fourth Enrique's age? Please give equation.
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Question 823214: Rachael's sister is 36 years old. She is 6 years older than twice Rachael's age. Which equation can best be used to find Rachael's age, a?
Is it
A. 1/2a= 36-6
B. a= 36-2(6)
C. 36=2a+6
D. 36= 2a-6
I chose C is it right?
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Question 823264: The sum of Lisa's age and joey's age is 40. Lisa is 8 years older than Joey. Find Lisa's age.
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Question 823199: a father is now three times as old as his son. twelves years ago he was six times as old as his son. find the present age of each.
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Question 823316: Currently, my father's age is four times the total age of my sister and me, but eight years from now, it will be only double. Also, in three years, my age will be twice my sister's age. What is the current age of my father, my sister, and me?
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Question 823320: Tony is twice as old as Jon. Jon is five years older than Matt. Angie is five years older than half of Jon's age. If the sum of their ages is 180, how old is Jon?
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Question 823526: Julie has decided to start a snow cone stand, and needs to purchase paper cups and flavored syrup. A local supplier offers packages of 25 cups at a cost of $2.64 per package, and bottles of syrup for $4.01 apiece. She has already decided to purchase 48 bottles of syrup.
If her total budget for these supplies is $311.00, and she cannot exceed this budget, which of the following inequalities could be used to solve for p, the number of packages of cups she can purchase?
$4.01 + $2.64p > $311.00
$192.48p - $2.64 > $311.00
$192.48 + $2.64p < $311.00
$126.72 + $4.01p < $311.00

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Question 823509: The water level of a pond drops an inch every 7 days without rain. How many days will it take the pond's water level to drop by 12 inches?
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Question 823460: [ Bruce is 36 years old. His son is 8. In how many years will Bruce be 3 times as old as his son? ]
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Question 823577: Trying to solave this word problem.
[ An eagle spied 1428 antelope and wildebeests grazing on the savannah. If they were in the ratio of 9 to 5, how many antelope were there? ]
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Question 823582: Joe is 4 times as old as Bob. Bob is 5 years older than Phil. All their ages sum to 73. What is the Difference between Joe and Phil's ages?
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Question 823665: If frank is 7 years older than chuck and the sum of their ages was 15 how old is chuck?
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Question 823714: When i was 4 years, my sister was half my age. now my sister is 30 years old. how old am i now?
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Question 823716: Tunde will be 20yrs old in 3yrs, His sister will be 5yrs older in 2yrs. How old is Tunde�s sister now?
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Question 823726: molly is only girl in Wilson family and the eldest of her parent's 7 children. the children's ages run in 4-year steps, with molly being 4 times as old as Sammy, the "baby" of the family. How old is Sammy?
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Question 823731: John, eighteen years old, is three times as old as his brother. How old will John be when he is twice as old as his brother?
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Question 823860: John was asked how old he is. He said in 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 years ago.
I guessed 12, am I right?
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Question 823860: John was asked how old he is. He said in 2 years I will be twice as old as I was 5 years ago.
I guessed 12, am I right?
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Question 823900: this year my age is a multiple of 7.last it was a multiple of 8.what is my present age?
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Question 824052: David is 5 years older than his sister. if the sum of the squares of their age is 193, find their age. How do I solve this question?
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Question 824065: when the son was 8 years old the father was 31 years old. Now the father is 2 times older than the son. How old is the son, and how old is the father
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Question 823401: Four years ago, the sum of the ages of Tom and Dick was 45. Six years from now, twice Dick�s age will be 28 more than Tom�s age then. How old is Tom now?
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Question 824053: Faridah is 3 times as old as her sister. Two years ago, the difference of squares of their ages was 240. What are their present age?
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Question 822928: Inequality equation: There are 3 fathers (Mr. Sawyer, Mr. Smith, Mr. Rein) whose ages are no less than 70 (combined). Mr. Smith is 20 years younger than Mr. Sawyer. Mr. Rein is 1/3 the age of Sawyer. What are their ages.
Thank you.
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Question 824070: The son is 20 years younger than the father. 10 years ago the father was 3 times the son's age. How old is the son, and how old is the father
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Question 824050: An aunt is 4 times as old as her nephew.
In 8 years time the aunt will only be 5/2 times as old.
How old is she?
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Question 824162: i was seven times as old as you were when i was as old as you are said a dad to his son....the sum of thr present ages is 110.....find present age of dad and son
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Question 824178: A boy is born when his father is 27 years old. How old will he be when he is exactly half his fathers' age?
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Question 587199: If a father is now 5 times as old as his son, how many years ago was the son 2 years old and the father 34 years old?

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