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Question 878220: Frances is 2 years older than Anna. The sum of their ages is twenty-six. How old is Frances?
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Question 878216: My age is 16 my father age is 43 when my father age is three times than me
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Question 878247: please help me to solve this question as tomorrow is my exam in maths
'two years ago, bunty was three times as old as his son and two years hence, twice his age is equal to five times that of his son.find their present ages.
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Question 878521: Three years ago, X's age was double of Y's. Seven year hence the sum of their ages will be 83 years. What is the age of X today?
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Question 878514: two years ago,a man was five times as old as his son. two years later,his age be 8 more than three times the age of the son. find the present age of the man and his son
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Question 878466: If im 5 whats twice my age
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Question 878412: Bobby is 11 years old, exactly 1/3 as old as his mother. In how many years will he be 1/2 as old as she?
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Question 878561: Brittany is 5 times older than her brother, Ricky. If in 6 years time, Ricky's age will be three sevenths of Brittany's age, how old will Ricky be when Brittany is 60?
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Question 878911: The sum of minho's and taemin's ages is 37. Five years ago, minho's age was twice of taemin's. What is Mimho's age.
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Question 878893: alex's mom is 3 times older than alex and 4 times older than her brother who is 3 years younger than alex .find their ages
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Question 878937: In a family 2 sets of twins are born 2 years apart the sum of they age is 16 let the younger twins age be x write an eqation and solve for x
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Question 879013: Solve system of eqautions by subsitution
Kirsten is five years older then Tom. The product of their ages is 24. How old are Kirsten and Tom? make your system of equations, then solve.
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Question 879220: My sister will be 20 in 4 years time I am half her age how old am i
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Question 879256: Bill and Jenna are solving the quadratic equation x 2 - x = 12.
Bill solved this way Jenna solved this way
x2 - x = 12
x(x - 1) = 12
x = 12 or 13 x2 - x = 12
x2 - x - 12 = 0
(x - 4)(x + 3) = 0
x = 4 or x = -3
Which student is correct?
What error did the other student make when solving?

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Question 879320: Your cousin was born in the 20th century. He's x years old in the year x^2. in what year was your cousin born.
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Question 879372: in a high school graduating class, there are 71 more women than men. Find the number of men if the total number of graduates is 357.
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Question 879549: If your 19 and your friend is 5 years younger how old are they
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Question 879539: Jan is five years older than Leann. Three years ago, the sum of their ages was 35. Find the ages of each.
HELP!!!
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Question 879592: Amy's brother is half the age of Amy. Amy's mom is twice the age of Amy and seven years older. The sum of their age is 56. What is Amy's age? What equation would you make for this?
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Question 879632: Kelly is x years old. Mike is 2 years older than twice Kelly's age. The sum of Kelly's and Mike's age is 26. How old are Kelly and Mike?
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Question 879694: Age of brother is twice the age of his sister. 3 years back, age of brother was 3 times the age of his sister.find their present ages??

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Question 879784: two sets of twins were born two years apart.the sum of thier ages in 16 years. let x be age of the young ones.write equation and solve for x
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Question 879932: my mum was 27 years old when she gave birth to me 8 years ago she was twice as
old has i would be in 5 years how old am i
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Question 879952: in 5 years time i will be 3 times as old as my son. in 14 years time, the sum of our ages will be 62. find the sum of our ages today

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Question 879941: in 12 year man will be 3 times old as son.the difference of their agesbe 30 year.find there present ages?
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Question 880010: Stacy and Travis are rock climbing. Stacy's rope is 4 feet shorter than 3 times the length of Travis' rope. Stacy's rope is 23 feet long. Write and solve an equation to find the length t of Travis' rope.

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Question 880021: marry is X years old, 5 times marry's age 6 years ago

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Question 880029: solve this: A is 3 times as old as B and B is 5 years older than C. If B is X years old write the algebraic expressions for following.
a) A's age today
b) C's age today
c) A's age in 6 years time
d) The sum of A and B age in 4 years time
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Question 880127: laura is riding on a bike course that is 40 miles long. so far, she has ridden 38 miles of the course.what percentage of the course has laura ridden so far?
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Question 880156: 7. At some point during the lives of you and the youngest person, your age will be three times his/her age at that moment. Write an equation which models how old in years each of you will be when you are three times as old as the younger person.
I was 25 when she was born. I can not figure out how to write the equation.
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Question 880214: When i was 4 years, my sister
was half my age
Now my sister is 30 years, how
old am I?
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Question 880261: a man is 21 years older than his son. in six years, the man will be 5 times tha age of his son. what is age of the son now?
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Question 880247: Jennifer is 13 years older than her cousin, Jane, and three times as old as her cousin Freddy. Jane is twice as old as her little brother, Jack. If Jack is one year old, then how old is Jennifer?

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Question 880415: a theif is running at a speed of 6 km per hour and a police constable is chasing him with a speed of 8 km per hour . If orignally the distance between the thief and the police is 500 m ,after what distance will the policeman catch the thief?
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Question 880416: when toms father was 31yrsold tom was 8yrs old now his father is twice tom age how old is tom now
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Question 880401: In a group of a dozen horses, some are 9 yrs old and the reminder are 11 yrs old. The total of their ages is 122. Find the age distribution
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Question 880384: a father tells his son i was three times of your present age when you were born if fathers present age is 48 years how old was the boy 4 years ago

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Question 880414: question1-ritu is 5 years younger than her brother rohit . Their father is 25 years older than ritu. 4 yeras ago the father was twice the sum of ages of rohit and ritu them .find their ptresent age of each.
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Question 880516: Pat�s grandmother is 7 times as old as Pat is now. If Pat is n years old now, which expression represents
her grandmother�s age 11 years ago?

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Question 880125: five years ago akbar was 8 times as old as his son ten years later he will be three times as old as his son what is akbars present age?
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Question 880658: In the Lopez family there are 5 children the youngest is in third grade the oldest is twice as old as the youngest the triplets are four years younger that the oldest the product of all the children's ages is 221,184 how old is each child
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Question 880709: When Katy was 12, her father was three times her age. Now he is twice her age.
How old is Katy now?
my guess:
let x= katy
father=3x
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Question 880718: A length of a window is 3 feet shorter than twice the width. If the area had 77 square meters, find the perimeter of the window.
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