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Question 915734: Yen is twice as old as Ben. Four time's Yen's age four years ago is one year less than three times Ben's age five years from now. How old is each now ?

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Question 915902: Jorge's brother is 4 less than 3 times his age. The sum of their ages is 64. How old is Jorge's brother?

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Question 915948: sara is 25 years younger than her mother. The sum of their age is 53. What is saras age
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Question 915962: Angelina's sister is 4 years older than one third Angelina's age. Angelina's age is represented by n. What is the expression that represents her sister's age.

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Question 915961: Moira is 3 years less than half her mother's age. Her mother is 76 years old. How old is Moira?
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Question 915958: There are 4 children in the family. They were all born 2 years apart. The sum of their ages is 84. How old are the children?
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Question 915947: If Sally is 3 years more than 4 times her youngest child. Together they ad up to 48. How old is Sally ? How old is her youngest daughter?

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Question 915945: Rudy was born in the month whose name has the most letters. The date is an even 2-digit number. The sum of the digits is 5. What is Rudy's birthday? Show your thinking.
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Question 916150: Andy's dad is four times as old as Andy who is 10 years old. how old is Andy's dad?
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Question 916286: A man is nine times as old as his son. In nine years, he will be only three times as old as his son. How old are each now?
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Question 915521: Ginger's brother is 6 years younger than she is. Ginger's brother is 7 years old. Write and solve an equation that will determine Ginger's age.
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Question 916528: Jim is 6 years older than Kathy. Together, their ages equal four times Kathy's age. How old is each? How do I turn this into an equation to solve for x?
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Question 916620: A sum of money amounting to $4.44 consists of pennies, nickles & quarters. The number of nickles is 3 times the number of pennies and the number of quarters is 3more than the number of pennies. How many of each coins are there?
With what I got is that there are 36 pennies. I just don't get it & would really appreciate help.
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Question 916705: A kayak can travel 18 miles downstream in 3 hours, while it would take 9 hours to make the same trip upstream. Find the speed of the kayak in still water as well as the speed of the current.
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Question 916704: James is 5 times as old as Mike. In 9 years James will only be twice as old as Mike is then. How old is eache now?
My answer keeps coming out wrong, help please.!?
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Question 916728: Ram is three times as old as his son.After ten year the sum of their ages will be 76 years .find their present ag
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Question 916736: A man is six times as old as his son. Twenty years later, the man will be twice as old as his son. Find the age of the man when his son was born.

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Question 916741: the age of father and son added up to 66 , the father age is reverse of sons age , how did they could be .
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Question 916800: Solving proportions.
8a + 4 / 8a + 6 = 2 /4
Help please?
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Question 916801: Solving proportions.
3p + 4 / 3 = p + 1 / 2
Help please?
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Question 916849: kittys mass is about 2 1/2 times as much as fluffys and togethr thier total mass is 7.5 kg
write an equation to determine fluffys mass ,w,in kilograms .

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Question 916979: T he sum of the ages of two boys is 50 . In 5 years time the elder brother will be four times the younger brother . Find their ages
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Question 917013: Can you please answer me this algebra question
Roy is 11 years old and his uncle is 59 years old. How many years ago was Roy's uncle 7 times old as Roy?
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Question 917125: Is anyone familiar with the math placement test administered by Central Piedmont College in North Carolina...the NC DAP Math test?
Thanks
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Question 917140: Jack is four years younger than Mary. Mario is 6 less than twice the age of Mary. The sum of their ages is 22. What is Jack's age?
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Question 917171: Ann is 5 years older than her sister Susan. The sum of their ages is 27. How old is each girl?
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Question 917286: a mans age is three times that of his son.twelve year's ago the man's age was 27 times his sons age.How old are they now?
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Question 917711: ericas age is 8 and her mother is 42. in how many years time will the mother be 3 times older than her daughter?
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Question 917754: two years ago nasir's grandpa was 7 times as old as nasir .Three years from now Nasir's grandpa will be five times as old as him.What is the age of the grandpa today?
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Question 917775: Priya is 21 years older than her son Sonu.
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Question 917966: Bob is 104, Bill is twice as old as bob. How old is Bill?
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Question 917732: if lucy was three times as old as she was four years ago she will be fourteen more than her current age. how old is lucy
now

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Question 918058: Please help me solve this word problem: Betty is 2/5 as old as Steven. If Steven is 60 years old, how old is Bettty?
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Question 918123: a father is three times as old as his son. five years ago father's age was four times his sons age then. find their present ages.
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Question 918095: my sister is 5 years older than i am. in 5 years, she will be 18 years old. how old am i?
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Question 918188: Jamal is a years old,how old was he 8 years ago in terms of a

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Question 918174: on interchanging the digits of a two digit number(10x+y) is 37 less the original number.
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Question 918152: When my grandmother got married in 1950, both her age and her grandmother's age were respectively equal to the last two digits of their birth years! How old was my grandmother's grandmother when my grandmother got married? WOW!!! Thanks for your help.
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Question 917634: I need help solving this age word problem. It is:
Jim is 4 years older than Terry. Nine years ago, Jim was 5 times as old as Terry was then. How old is each?
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Question 918532: on adding 7. a 2 digit number reverse its digit. write the equation of given information?

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Question 918542: Six years ago i was three times as old as my brother and now i am twice as old . Find our present ages?
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Question 918530: on adding 1 in numerator and denominator of same fraction. denominator becomes 3 times the numerator. write the equation?

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Question 918468: Ben is three more than two times ad old as Denise. In 17 years the sum of their ages will be 121. How old is Denise now?
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