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Question 858954: 23 more than Raj's age is 70
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Question 858924: A father has a son and a daughter. The father is five times old as the daughter and the son is 2 years older than the daughter. In 10 years, the sum of their three ages will be 81. How old are they now?
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Question 859415: Jill is twice as old as Jim. Jim is three years older than Ken .The sum of their ages is 61. What are their their ages?

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Question 859590: A mothers age is 5 more than twice her daughter's. The sum of their ages is 71. How old is the daughter?
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Question 859598: Brandon is 5 years younger than his brother. The product of their ages is the same as their father�s age.
If their father is 50, how old is Brandon?
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Question 859636: Three years ago Elaine was five times as old as Jerry. Today she is three times as old as Jerry. How old are Jerry and Elaine today?
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Question 859773: six years ago, I was half the age I will be in six years. How old am i?
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Question 859765: How do I solve the following:
When Sally asked Johnny how old he was, he replied that in 2 years he would be twice as old as he was 3 years ago. How old is Johnny?
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Question 859926: Kyle is 25 years older then his son Alex. In 2 years he will be twice as old as his son.What is Kyle age?
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Question 859937: Renee is twice as old as Dana. Four years ago, Renee was three times as old as Dana. How old are Renee and Dana now?

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Question 859986: Yesterday one kitten was 4 times the age of another kitten. Today the sum of their ages is 10 days. How old are the two kittens today?
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Question 860141: Claire is 12 years old. Her brother Roger is 4 years old, and their mother is 36 years old. Which fraction shows the ratio of Claire's age to her mother's age?
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Question 860147: Human hair from a grave in Africa proved to have only 67% of the carbon 14 of living tissue. When was the body buried? The half life of carbon 14 is 5730 years.
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Question 859977: Shawnee is 5 years old. Less than twice as old as Alice. Together they are 103

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Question 859747: Kate is three times as old as her son. If Kate is 30 years older than her son, what are their ages?
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Question 860346: one-fourth of eric age last year plus triple his age next year is 45. How old is Eric?
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Question 860348: Please help me solve this equation.
Find my age, my grandmother's age and my sister's age if:
My father is 40 and he is four years older than my mother
My mother is three times more than my age.
And my sister is 75% my age and 15% of my grandmother's age
Answers:
My age = 40-4/3= 12 years old
My sister's age = 75% of 12 = 9 + 15% of grandmother's age

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Question 860376: George is three times as old as Sam. Five years from now, the sum of their ages will be 46.
a) Create an equation that represents the relationship between George's and Sam's ages five years from now.
b) Use your equation to determine their current ages.
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Question 860573: In 12 years, a man will be three times as old as his son; the difference of their present ages is 30, find their present ages
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Question 860595: George is five times as old as Jane.
1) Let x stand for Jane's age and y stand for George's age. Write an equation in terms of x and y to represent the above statement.
2) In fifteen years time George will be three times as old as Jane. Use this relation to show that y = 3x + 30.
3) Use the equations obtained in the previous parts of the question to determine the values of x and y.
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Question 860698: Hi,
This math problem confuses me very much....
Bill is three times older than Susan. In 18 years Bill is only 2 times older than Susan. Find the present age of Bill and Susan.
Thanks
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Question 861050: How do you solve how old you are in seconds if you are 15 years old
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Question 861331: Grace to her cousin�s age is 4 : 5. 6 years later, the ratio will be 11 : 13.Find Grace�s age.
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Question 861307: Shirley is 21 years older than Laura. In six years, Shirley will be twice as old as Laura. How old are they now?
For my word problem I have S=Shirley and L=Laura. So far I have S=L+21 and right under it, S+6=2(L+21) , I may be wrong but can you still check my work and that's all I have down because I'm confused about the other part. Please help me and thank you for your hard work.
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Question 861352:
The sum of present age of father and daughter is 40 yrs. What will be their ages after x years?
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Question 861559: Boron is ten years older than his sister. In three years, he will be twice as old as she is now. How old are they now?
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Question 861531: Tomas, Rick and Larry are three brothers. Tomas, who is the oldest is not yet 40. The sum of the ages of the brothers is 73 and the product of Tomas and Larry's age is 750. Furthermore, the difference between Tomas' age and Ricks age is 7 years greater than the difference between Tomas and Larry's age. How old is Rick?
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Question 861752: The day before yesterday, sandy was 26 years old. Next year he will turn 29. how is this possible ???
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Question 861782: Jean is 54 and Kay is 2 years old. When will Jean be 3 times Kay's age? Please show me how to write out the problem. I am lost.
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Question 861810: Jamy's age is one fifth of his grandfather's age how old is his grandfather if jamy is 14 years old

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Question 862298: If A = James's present age, write an expression for his age seven years from now.

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Question 862534: The square root of 17161 is
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Question 862554: Rich is twice as old as chris. Five years from now the sum of their ages will be 52. How old is chris?
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Question 862672: How old is Jose if he was 21 years old nine years ago ?

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Question 818345: Eight years ago, Mark was 16 years old. How old is he now ?

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Question 862548: Jake is x years old. Robert is 6 years younger than Jake. How old will Robert be in 7 years ?
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Question 862659: Together, Grandma and Grandpa are 140 years old. How old is Grandma if Grandpa was twice as old as Grandma was when Grandpa was as old as Grandma is now.
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Question 863018: The sum of 4 times Ben's age and 5 times Neil's age is 128. Neil is 4 years older than Ben is.
Find each of their ages
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Question 863081: joe is 15 yrs younger then his brother. five years from now, three times his own age will equal twice his brother age how old is joe

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Question 863209: Ram tells shyam when I was half of your age you were one third of my present age. If ram's present age is 36. How old is shyam now?
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Question 863307: Daughter is 1/2 as old as mom. 12 yrs ago daughter was 1/3 mothers age, what are there ages now?
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Question 863942: Barbara and Sue are mother and daughter. Together, their ages add to 41. Sue is five years older than three times Barbara's age. How old are Sue and Barbara?
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Question 863938: Bill is 3 years older than Carlos. Five years ago, Bill was twice Carlos's age. How old are they now? Write a system to represent this problem.
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