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Question 828280: Wyn and Godfreys ages add up to 10. in ten years time Wyn will be one and a half times as old as Godfrey. How old is Godfrey now?

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Question 828349: Mike is 5 years less than three times as old as his sister. Next year he will be twice as old as she will be. How old is each?
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Question 828321: The average age of 3 people is 15. If the 3rd person is 5 years older than the 1st person and the 2nd person is 4 years younger than the 1st person, what is the age of the 2nd person?
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Question 828412: A family of four members. The father is 2 years older than the mother. The sister is 2 years older than the brother. The sum of all the present ages is 64. Three years ago. The sum of their agrs was 53. How old is each of them now?
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Question 828246: The ratio between the ages of X and y today is 20:1.Six years later,the ratio of their ages will be 5:1.Find the age of X today.
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Question 828564: The oldest child in a family is 5 years older than her brother. The mother is 1 year younger than twice the sum of her children's ages, and the father's age equals the mother's age plus the son's age. If the sum of all four ages is three times a prime number and the mother was younger than 50 when she had her second child, how old is the daughter?

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Question 828704: My father's age is 4 times my age. The sum of our ages is 60. How old is my father?
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Question 828725: The two prime numbers p and m are between 50 and 60. Their difference is 6. What is their sum?
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Question 828795: Ace Construction built five less than twice the number of houses that Ben's Construction built. If the total number of houses built by both firms was 115, how many did each build?

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Question 828498: Jess walked for 45 minutes at 3 km/h and then ran for half an hour at x km/h. At the end of that point she was 6 kmfrom the starting point. Find the value of x.
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Question 829032: Sam is 21 years old. Joe is older than Sam. Let a=Joe's age Write an inequality to model Joes's age.

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Question 829006: Eileen is 21 years old, which is 6 less than 3 times Minnie�s age in years. Write an equation to find Minnie�s age. How old is Minnie?

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Question 829296: math susan is five years less than twice her brother's age
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Question 829312: Leon is four times as old as Matthew. Ten years from now, Leon will be twice as old as Matthew. Find the present ages of Leon and Matthew.
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Question 829261: What is a story problem for 38 times 68?

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Question 829287: imagine a family of 6 you are one of the people in the family (I'm 11) the average age is 23. List the ages of the people in the family

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Question 828778: Mary is 2 times Tim's age. Tim is 5 more than Gina's age. Mary is 3 times Gina's age. How old are they altogether?
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Question 829419: Rosa is 14 years older than Amy. Three years ago, she was 3 times as old as Amy. How old is each girl now?
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Question 829451: Abraham has a son named Bill. Bill has a son named Carl. Abraham is 24 years older than Bill and Bill is 35 years older than Carl. Added up their ages equal 100. How old is each one? A+B+C= 100. A= B+ 24, B= C+ 35. I figured it out through trial and error starting with 1 for C. the ages are 61,37, and 2 (A,B,C). But what's the mathematical way.
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Question 829490: Aaron is 12 years old. He is 3 times as old as his brother. How old will Aaron be when he is twice as old?
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Question 829538: Jill is 12 years older than jack. IN 8 yeras she will be three times his age. How old is Jack?
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Question 829639: a man is 5 years older than his daughter. the man's son is 2 years older than his sister. in 10 years the sum of their three ages is 81.
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Question 829765: Carol is 15 years older than her sister amanda.Mike is two times as old as amanda.the sum of their ages is 35. How old is carol?

My atempt was: amanda;a+15=35
carol;a
mike;2a
then i subtracted 15 from 35 and got 20=3a because i added amanda,mike and carol's a. im stuck after here i dont know what to do.
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Question 829800: Jenny and her cousin Jason share the same birthday. Jenny realized that on their next birthday, she would be 2 years less than 3 times Jason's age. If the sum of their ages will be 18 years, how old will Jenny and her cousin be on their next birthday?
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Question 829788: the ages of a man and his son add up to 39. in 3 years the man will be 4 times as old as his son. Find ages of man and son.

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Question 829786: Alex is twenty years older than Maria. Maria is three years old. How many years form now will he be three times as old as her?

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Question 829817: The sum of the ages of a woman and her son is 36 years. Six years from now the woman will be twice as old as her son. How old is each now?
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Question 829728: a man is 5 times as old as his daughter. the man's son is 2 years older than his sister. in 10 years the sum of their three ages is 81. what are each of their ages?
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Question 829885: On his birthday last year John said "My age is the sum of the digits of the year in which I was born". How old is John?

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Question 829884: A father told to his daughter, "when I was in your age, you were 4 years old, and when you are my age, I will be 88. What are their present ages?
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Question 830025: what is the greatest common factor of the polynomial

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Question 830055: A mother and her daughter total 66 years. Two years ago, the mother was 5 more than twice her daughters age. Find the mothers age now.
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Question 830214: father is 32 years older than the daughter. in 4 years he will be 5 times her age. What is the age of the father and daughter

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Question 830263: Krishna, twelve years old, is three times as old as his brother. How old will Krishna be when he is twice as old as his brother?
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Question 830285: four years hence a boy will be twice as old as he was 6 years ago. what is his present ages?
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Question 830267: if sum of age of father and son at present is 60 years what will be their age aftet 15 years?
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Question 830272: $49000 reduced 2% each month for 106 months
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Question 830315: Translate the verbal statements a man's age 10 years ago
into algebraic expression.
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Question 830320: When I was 4 years old, my sister was half my age. Now I'm 100 years old. How old is my sister?
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Question 829890: Mary will be x years old in the year x squared. When was Mary born?
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Question 829836: When Mr. Tan was his son's present age, his son was only 4 years old. When his son reaches his present age, Mr. Tan will be 79 years old. How old is each of them now?
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Question 830302: two years ago,Perla was 7 times as old as Merly.two years from now,Perla will be 6 years more than 4 times as old as merly will be.Find the present age of each.
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Question 814423: In five years' time Tim will be three times as old as he was nine years ago. How old is he now?
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