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Question 842506: Sally is Bob's younger sister, and she is 7 years younger than Bob. If you multiply Bob's age by three, and subtract sally's age, you get their mother's age, which is 37. How old is Sally?
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Question 1: A father's age is thirteen times that of his son. In 10 years, the son's age will be one-third of his father's. How old are the father and son?
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Question 842539: raj is 11 years old and his uncle is 59 year. How many years ago was rajs uncle 7 times as old as raj
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Question 842539: raj is 11 years old and his uncle is 59 year. How many years ago was rajs uncle 7 times as old as raj
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Question 842571: the present age of father is 35 years.3 years back his age was 4 times the age of his son.find the age of his son.
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Question 842570: the present age of father is 35 years.3 years back his age was 4 times the age of his son.find the age of his son.
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Question 842546: sudha is 12 years older than her daughter sheila. How old will.be sheila when the sum of their ages is 40
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Question 842504: Carl is twice as old as Ginger. If Carl were 2 years younger and Ginger were 3 years older, the difference of their ages would be 3. How old is Ginger
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Question 842605: Karen is 5 years older than Sean. The product of their ages is 300. How old is Karen?
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Question 842668: John is 11 years older than Sam and the product of their ages is 180. How old is Sam?
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Question 842797: A marathon is a 26.2-mile race. You run three marathons in one year. How many miles do you run?
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Question 843147: a father is four times as old as his son. in 8 years he will be 3 times as old. how old will his son be
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Question 843133: Two angles are supplementary (if you do not know this definition �Google� it). If the larger angle is 3 degrees more than twice the smaller angle then how big is each angle. Write an expression for each angle. Write the equation for this situation. Solve the equation. Find the size of each angle.
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Question 843037: Ten years ago a man was twice as old as his wife is now. The man is now twice as old as his wife was then. How old is the man now?
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Question 843344: the age of a man is the same as his wife's age with the digits reversed. if the sum of the age is 99 and the man is 9 years older than his wife, how old is he?

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Question 843449: Tom is y years old.
(a) how old was he 3 years ago?
(b) how old will she be in 4 years time?
(c) find her age, if half of what she was 3 years ago is equal to one-third of whatshe will be in 4 years time
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Question 843301: Kris is three times as old as her daughter kim. six years ago, Kris was five times as old as kim. How old are kris and kim?
We have to make two equations and solve by substitution or elimination
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Question 843487: if 8x-4=6x-10, find the value of 5x
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Question 843489: if 2x+y=7 and 3x-2y=3,
by how much is 7x greater than 10?
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Question 843481: A bottle of cowbell milk is emptied into 8 cups, each of which holds 150ml. how many litres of milk were in the bottle?
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Question 843500: 8 people shared a prize and receive 125 each. How much would each have receive if there had been only 5 prize winners?
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Question 843500: 8 people shared a prize and receive 125 each. How much would each have receive if there had been only 5 prize winners?
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Question 843499: of the people in the class, 15 can spell parallel, 14 can spell pythagoras, 5 can spell both words and 4 can spell neither. How many pupils are there in the class?
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Question 843502: a bottle of cowbell milk is emptied into 8 cups, each of which holds 150ml. H ow many litres of milk were in the bottle?
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Question 843490: if 8x-4=6x-10
find the value of 5x
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Question 843556: ray is 39 years old. his age is 15 years more than twice his daughters age. how old is his daughter
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Question 843579: The first term of an arithmetic progression is 62 and the fifth term is 74. Find the common difference
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Question 843574: Mr Johnson shares $500,000.00 among three children. They are mercy, janet and timmy in the ratio 2:3:5. How much does each receives
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Question 843583: Mr Johnson shares $500,000.00 among three children. They are mercy, janet and timmy in the ratio 2:3:5. How much does each receives
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Question 843564: Ralph and Andrew each had an equal amount of money. Each day Ralph spent $18 and Andrew spent $24. When Andrew used up all his money. Ralph still has $120 left. How much money did each of them have at first.
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Question 843610: A boy is 15 years old now,what will be his age in n years time?
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Question 843591: x+4>or=10x-23

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Question 843573: Age (years) 12 13 14 15 16
No. of students 2 6 4 4 2
(a) calculate the mean age
(b) find the median
(c) obtain the mode
(d) if a student is selected at random, what is the probability that the student is 14 years old?

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Question 843889: A father is twice as old as his son. Twelve years ago the father was four times as old as the son was then. Determine their present age
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Question 844077: Rene is twice as old as Dana.
Four years ago, Rene was three times as old as Dana.
How old are Rene and Dana now? Show work
Write an algebraic expression to tell how old Rene is if Dana is d year old. Explain how you figured it out.
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Question 844056: Brandon is 6 times as old as Cora. In 4 years, Brandon will be only twice as old as Cora will be then. Find Brandon's age now.
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Question 844130: Jan is 6 years older than his brother. He will be twice as old as his brother in 4 years. How old is Jan now?
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Question 844125: in 15 years, a child's age will be
9 years less than four times her current age.
Find her current age.

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Question 843524: the angle of elevation of the top of a tree from a point P is 7o. After walking 30m towards the tree, the angle of elevation becomes 9.1, find the height of the tree
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Question 844195: Michael is 30 years older than his daughter. In five years' time, Michael will be 4 times as old as his daughter. How old is Michael now?
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Question 844233: Charlie is 15 years older than Brett. Diane is 46. Paco is 10 years younger than Diane and 33 years older than Brett. How old is Charlie?

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Question 844244: Sally is Bob�s younger sister, and she is 7 years younger than Bob. If you multiply Bob�s age by three and subtract Sally�s age, you get their mother�s age, which is 37 years. How old is Sally?

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Question 844572: Sum of the ages of kabur & raj is 29years
3years ago.the difference of their ages was 5years. If kabir is older'how old will they be 2years from now
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