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Question 903539: fred is 3 years more than two and one-half times his sister's age. of fred is 18, how old is his sister?
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Question 903594: Albert's father is twice his age. AND HE IS SIX TIMES THE AGE OF HIS LITTLE SON. THE IR AGES ADD UP TO 76 YEARS. HOW OLD IS EACH?
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Question 903598: Please help me to solve this problem . the sum of the ages of two children is 16 years . four years ago the age of the older child was three times the age of the younger child. find the present age of each child
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Question 903590: Joan is 7 years older than twice her son Rommel. Five years ago she was 3 years less than thrice as old as her son. Find the present age of Rommel.
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Question 903674: A is 12 year old, B is 24 year ols. how many years ago was B's age 3 times that os A?

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Question 903965: Marks age now if he is seven-ninths of what it will be 18 yrs from now

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Question 903992: John's age is seventeen years less than twice Isabella's age. Together, the sum of their ages is two more than twice Isabella's age. How old is John?

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Question 903984: jane is 3 years older than tom, tom is 2 more than twice the age of joe. If the sum of their ages is 40 how old is tom?
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Question 904000: Rahul's age is 6 years more than two times Ram's age. Ram's age is 38 years. Find Rahul's age.
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Question 904343: jeff and jacks ages are such that twice jeff's present age is the same as jacks ge was 4 years ago. jeff is now one third as old as jack will be 26 years from now. find the current age of both jeff and jack
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Question 904474: Brad is two times as old as Jerry. The sum of their ages is 81. How old is is Brad?
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Question 904532: Rob is 5 years older than John. Mark is twice as old a John. The total of their ages is 65 . Write an equation and solve to find the ages of John, Rob, and Mark.
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Question 904540: Suzi is 5 inches taller than her mother. Their combined height is 125 inches. Write and solve an equation to find how tall Suzi is?
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Question 904605: Express the average of three sisters in the terms of the age (a) of the firstborn (in years) if the second was born 5 years after the first and the third was born 5 years after the second.
I've tried it a bunch of different ways and can't figure out the correct answer. Please help!
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Question 905074: Will,Ben and Jan are siblings. Here is what we know bout their ages:Ben is 3 years older than Will. Jan is twice as old as Ben. The sum of their ages is 41.
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Question 905394: Cyril is two years older than Alyssa. In 7 years, the ratio of their ages is 6:7. Find their ages in 5 years.
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Question 905448: My mother is 12 years more than twice my age. After 8 years, my mother's age will be 20 years less than three times my age. Find my age and my mother's age.
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Question 905534: Jan's age is three years less than twice Tritt's age. The sum of their age is 30. Write an equation
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Question 905604: Two years ago lori was 5 years old. How old will lori be 2 years from now
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Question 905704: Ali is 12 years younger than Mana. The sum of their ages is 80. How old is Mana?
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Question 905750: Eight years from now, Donna will be three times as old as she is now.
Select one:
a. x + 8 = 3x
b. x + 3 = 8x
c. 8 (x + 3) = x
d. 3x = 8
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Question 905749: Eight years from now, Donna will be three times as old as she is now.
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Question 905682: ishaan is 5 times as old as umaima and is also 8 years older than umaima. How old is umaima?
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Question 905795: Using exactly nine bills, how can you make change for $55 that will NOT make change for a twenty dollar bill?

a.
1 twenty, 3 tens, 5 singles
c.
2 twenties, 1 ten, 6 singles

b.
4 tens, 2 fives, 5 singles
d.
2 twenties, 2 fives, 5 singles

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Question 905840: James is 12 years old. He will be 5/3 the age of his sister in 3 years. How old will the sister be in two years?
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Question 905890: I am having trouble figuring out how to set up this problem. Thank you in advance to anyone who helps!
Addison is 3 times as old as Bailey and Bailey is 2.5 times as old as Christopher. If the sum off all of their ages is 66, how old is Christopher?
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Question 905953: Ok so I've tried everything but the wording is to hard it states
Matt is 5 years younger than 4 times the age of hank the sum of the two ages is 80 write and solve a liner system to find how old Matt is and how old hank is
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Question 906287: Steve, 18 years old, is three times as old as his brother Daniel. How old will Steve be when he will be twice as old as Daniel?
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Question 906511: The sum of Greg's age and Sherri's age is 42. Greg's age 14 years from now will be twice what Sherri's age was 11 years ago. What are their ages now?
Thank you!
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Question 906326: in 2 years, edgar will be three fourths as old as his sister, edna. 2 years ago, he was two thirds as old as she. how old are they
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Question 906550: a mother is 46 years old and her son 21 years old in the year 1997.In what year was the mother six times as old as son?
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Question 906629: jim iis 7 years older than janice, the sum of their ages are 41 what is each person age?
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Question 906656: Two days ago, Karen was 7 years old. Next
year, she will turn 10.
How possible is this?
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Question 906545: A man is 2 years older than his sister. Thirty years ago he was 3 times as old as her. How old is the man now?
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Question 906742: Eight years ago the sum of ages A and B is equal to 26. Five years from now, B's age will be equal to twice A's age less than 35. How old is A and B?
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Question 906839: translate sophie's age 6 years ago if she is x years old now

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Question 906872: i need an age problem that results to 39 years old and 16 years old :) please
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Question 906893: Victor is y years old. His brother Fred is four years old than Victor. The product of their ages is 770.
a) Set up an equation to represent this information.

b) Solve your equation from a) to find Victor's age.
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Question 906950: I'm 16 now. My birthdays on October 16 . I was born on 1996, so how old will i be on 2880?
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Question 907097: a boy's age is one third of his father's age. In ten years the son's age will be three less than half the father's age. Find the age of each.
B= boys age
F= fathers age
I found the variables to equal:
3b= f
B=1/3F
My equation was
10+b=1/2f-3

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Question 907247: Donna is going to rent a truck for one day. There are two companies she can choose from, and they have the following prices.
Company A has no initial fee but charges $.80 for every mile driven.
Company B charges an initial fee of $50 and an additional $.50 for every mile driven.
For what milleage will Company A charge more than Company B?
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Question 907325: Mary is 15 years older than her sister Jane. Six years ago Mary was 6 times as old as Jane.What is the sum of their ages?
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Question 907329: A father is now 6 times as old as his son. In two years, the father will be 5 times as old as his son. Find the present age of the father.
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