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Question 311058: The father is 40 years old and the son is 12 years old. How many years ago was the father 5 times older than the son?
The answer is obviously 5, but i can't get the equotion right.
Thanks!
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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 824184: The father and the son together have 46 years. Three years ago, the father was 4 times older than the son. How old is the son, and how old is the father?
So, I tried to find a solution.
3 years ago
father 4x
son x
now
father 46-x
son x
4x+3+x+3=46-x+x
5x+6=46 (I omitted the -x and the x)
5x=46-6
5x=40
x=40/5
x=8
So the son is 8 years old and the father is 46-8=38.
Actually, my question is - is my solution right (correct)?
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Question 824438: the sum of the age of father and son is now 48 , what was the sum of their age ten years ago?
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Question 824453: Raja's age is one fifth his father's age.After 6 years,his age will be one third his father's age.How old are they now.
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Question 824483: tommy: how old are you momma?
momma? your age my age and your fathers age equal 70.
tommy: how old are you papa?
papa: just six times as old as you papa
tommy: will i ever be half your age?
papa: that should happen when our three ages equal twice as much as it does today.
how old is papa momma and tommy?
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Question 824555: the age of a man is twice the square of his son. eight years hence,the age of the man will be 4 years more than three times the age of his son.find their present age
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Question 824558: if ceasy is 6 years older than her friend Lisa, and john is 5 years older than ceasy,and total of their age is 41,Then what is the Lisa age?
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Question 824590: I'm 16 years old and my son is 4 years old. How old will I be when I am double his age?
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Question 824652: Timothy's age in 17 years will be three times what it was 7 years ago. How old is Timothy now?
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Question 824693: Anu is 20 years older than Rinu.She is also 6 times as old as Rinu. Find their ages.
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Question 824692: Janice is 1 year younger than her brother Billy and 1 year older than her sister Sheena. The sum of their ages is 57. How old is each child?
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Question 824689: The present age of Soya�s father is three times Soya�s present age. After five years, the sum of their ages is 70 years. Find their present ages.
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Question 824776: Mary is N years old and her husband is 4 years older than her. The sum of their ages is 58 years old. What is N? The boy is now N years old and his father is 30 years old. In 5 years the son will be ___ years old and his father will be ___ years old. Therefore, __________ N=____
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Question 825089: Rahul's father is 3 times as old as Rahull. Four years ago, his father was 4 times older than him. How old is Rahul?
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Question 825142: [ A man is twice as old as his son. If 9 years ago the sum of their ages was 66 years, find their present ages. ]
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Question 825141: a father is 4 times as old as his son. in 5 years he will be 3 times as old as his son. what are their current ages ?

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Question 825337: In 15 years, Maya will be twice as old as David is now. In 15 years, David will be as old as Maya will be 10 years from now. How old is Maya now?
a.
20
c.
30
b.
25
d.
35
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Question 825406: Michelle has a patty and invites 3 friends. Each friend invites 3 other friends. each of these friends invites 3 more friends. Finally,each of these friends invites 3 more friends. Each guest at the party brings 3 gifts, with 3 bows on each gift. How many bows does Michelle get at the party?
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Question 825446: In 5 years jenny will be two thirds as old as her aunt. Three years ago she was half as old as her aunt is now. How old are jenny and her aunt now?
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Question 825481: two years ago father was three times as old as his son and two years hence twice his age will be equal to five times that of his son find there present ages
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Question 825532: I have trouble with this question:
The ages of Peter, Margaret and Jack are consecutive odd numbers. The sum of the ages of Peter and Margaret equals Jack�s age before 5 years. Find the ages of Peter, Margaret and Jack.
I don't know how to consider the "consecutive odd numbers" but I know the second equation is p + m = j - 5
How do you solve the rest of this problem?
Thank you.
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Question 825527: Hello, I have just starting practicing and now improving on "age" word problems. But I am stuck on this one question:
Nick and Kane were born on consecutive years and on same date. Nick is younger. The sum of their ages is 11. Find the age of the brothers.
I get confused with the word "consecutive" in a sentence. However, I had a go:
n = k - 1 (I assume that Nick is younger by a year but the I am not too sure of the number)
n + k = 11 (the sum of both the brothers' ages)
Sub n = k - 1 into n + k = 11
k - 1 + k = 11
2k - 1 = 11
2k = 12
k = 6
Nick would have to be 5 years old.
Does this sound right to you?

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Question 825640: If im 14 and my brother is 2x older than me how old is he ?
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Question 825672: Ellis is one year younger than Dender. One-half of Ellis' age is three less than two-thirds Dender's age. Find their present ages.
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Question 825583: Bill and Ben have combined ages of 91. If bill is twice as old as Ben was when bill was as old as Ben, find their present ages.
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Question 825704: Gil. Is reading a book that has 276 pages he has already read some of it last week he plans to read 20 pages tomorrow by then he will be 2/3 of the way through the book how many pages did gil read last week?
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Question 825667: manu is 4 years older than his sister anu. if the sum of their ages is 20 years, find their ages.
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Question 825771: Hello,
I did ask this question: The ages of Peter, Margaret and Jack are consecutive odd numbers. The sum of the ages of Peter and Margaret equals Jack�s age before 5 years. Find the ages of Peter, Margaret and Jack.
I read the solution but I don't know how you get the consecutive numbers: x, x + 2 and x + 4. Can you please explain to me why?
Thank you.
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Question 825774: The sum of the ages of Tony and Teddy equals thrice their mother�s age. Tony is two years younger than Teddy. If the age of the mother is 42, find the ages of Tony and Teddy.
I've done:
t + d = 3m
t = d - 2
m = 42
I "plugged" in the numbers but the numbers are really high at the end. What am I doing wrong here?
Thank you.
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Question 825777: A mother is now three times as old as her daughter if the sum of their ages five years before was 50 ,how old is the mother now ?
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Question 825721: In two years, Mr. Victoria will be thrice the age of his son, Bing. Six yeas ago, he was five times Bing's age. How old is each at present?
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Question 825853: The average age of five boys is 15 years. A sixth boy joins them, making the average age 15 years and 6 months. What is the age of this sixth boy?
Please reply as soon as possible because I am applying for Bergen Academies and I need help and I would really appreciate.
Thankyou!
My work:
15*5=75
75x=186
x=2.48
It is a impossible for the sixth boy to be 2.48 years old, therefore i find it difficult to complete this problem...

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Question 825889: The average age of six children is 13 years and 5 months. A seventh child joins the group, increasing the average age by two months. How old is this seventh child?
My work:
2*6=12months (1year)
5+2=2 months
Answer= 13 years 7 months (after adding the two months)= 14 years 7 months
Is that correct thank you!!!
If there is a different method please let me know!!!
Gracias!!!

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Question 825910: Maridol is twice as old as Maricel. In six years, she will be four times as old as Maricel was three years ago. What are their present ages?
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Question 825913: Ellis is one year younger than Denden. One-half of Ellis' age is three less than two-thirds of Denden's age. What are their present ages?

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Question 825671: tracy is now 3 times older than bob was 2 years ago. in four years bob will be the same age as tracy is now. how old are they now?

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Question 825980: a father is three times as old as his son .5years ago fathers age was four times his son age then.find their present ages.
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Question 826037: stephen is three times as old as theresa. in four yrs, he wil be twice as old as she will be. how old is each now?

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Question 826023: i am 3 digit number my age is twice my mothers age.....if my father age
is thrice my mom's whats my num if my father is 1236
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Question 826083: 12 years ago, the ratio between the age of A and B was 2:3, while the ratio of their present age is 5:6. Find the difference of age of A and B.

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Question 826096: the coin collection was being sold. chloe bought half of the coins plus 5 more, then steve bought 5, then kirk bought 10 more than half of what was left, and then jesscia bought 25. leaving 10 unsold. how many coins where there orginally?
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Question 826115: A man is five times as old as his son. Four years ago he was nine times as old. Find their present ages.
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