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Question 164035: 1.A man is now 42 years old and his friend is 33 years old. How many years ago was the man twice as old as his friend was then.
2.Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages 5 years ago. How old are they now?
Please answer this... i really need help tomorrow is the submission of my project so answer it quickly if possible. For now, i am working hard to solve the problems...
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Question 138884: Zachary, Olivia, Destiny, Caleb, Christopher, Julia, and Brianna are 31,37,33,24,34,21, and 19 years old. Find each persons age.
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Question 164140: Nicole is 72 years younger than 2 times Cathy's age. Maria is 144 years younger than 3 times Cathy's age. In 6 years Nicole will be 40. In six years how old will Maria be?
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Question 164323: at the deli, a sub sandwich with 8 ouces of meat costs 5.35. extra meat is availible for .30 per ounce. if scott bought a sub for 6.55, how much extra meat,m, did he order?
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Question 164470: Aunt Alice gave each of her three nieces a number of silver dollars equal to their ages. The youngest felt that this was unfair. They agreed to redistribute the money. The youngest would split half of her silver dollars evenly with the other two sisters. The middle would then give each of the others 4 silver dollars. Finally, the oldest was to split half of her dollars equally between the two younger sisters. After exchanging the money, each girl had 12 silver dollars. How old are the sisters? (Their ages = 36)
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Question 164509: 4)Isaac is nine years older than Ruth.Isaac is four times as old as Brian was three years ago.Brian is eighteen years younger than Issac.how old are Isaac,Ruth,and Brian?
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Question 164506: 1)Samantha is 8 and two-third years older than Jason.The sum of their age is 23 years.How old are Samantha and Jason?

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Question 164598: Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years, the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages five years ago. How old are they now?
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Question 164601: The product of the two-digit number and its tens digit is 54. Find the number if the sum of the digits when added to the number gives a result of 36.
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Question 164600: Paul 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years the product of their ages will be five more than the product of ther ages five year ago. How old are they now?
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Question 164597: Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years, the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages five years ago. How old are they now?
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Question 164602: Find a three digit number whose tens digit is 4 times the hundred�s digit and the unit�s digit is one more than the ten�s digit. The square of the sum of the digits is 72 more than the number?
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Question 164596: Paul 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years the product of their age will be five more than the product of their age. How old are they now?
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Question 164507: 2)Ryan was born 6 and one-fourth years after Alexander.The sum of their ages are 66 and eleven-twelfth years.How old are Alexander and Ryan?
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Question 164595: 6.) Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years, the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages five years ago. How old are they now?
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Question 164651: The sum of Wilbur�s age and Fred�s age is 20 years.
Wilbur�s age 1 year from now will be 9 times Fred�s age 1 year ago.
Find the present age of Wilbur and Fred.
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Question 164804: rizza's age is one year more than twice norrie"s ge. eight years ago, the sum of thier ages was equal to rizza's age ten years from now. how old are they now?
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Question 164811: the sum of the ages of two sisters is 37. the difference between four times the older sisters's age and three times the younger sistter's age is 43. how can i find the age of these sisters?
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Question 164841: the difference between the ages of two students is 4 years. if the sum of their ages is 425 years. find each students age
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Question 164851: The legs of a right triangle differ by 2 cm. and the hypotenuse is 4 cm. more than the shorter leg. Find the sides of the triangle?
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Question 164053: A company's assets have a value of $30,000 at the beginning of the year 1999. By the beginning og 2001 the assets has depreciated to $26,000.
1) Assuming that the depreciation is linear, write the linear equation rating the value V of the assest in terms of the years passed since the beginning of 1999.
2)Find the value of the asest in the year 2006
3)Find after how many years the value of the asset will be $7,000.
4)Find after how many years wil the asset be worthless(value=0)
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Question 164791: rizza's age is one year more than twice norries's age. eight years ago, the sum of their ages was equal to rizza's age ten years from now. how old are they?
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Question 164986: In two years time, Karishma's age will be three times Emily's age.
Emily is now t years old.
How old is Karishma now?
(A) 3t (B) 3t + 2 (C) 3t + 4 (D) 3t + 5
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Question 165032: 1. A man is now 42 years old and his friend is 33 years old. How many years ago was the man twice as old as his friend was then?
2. Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter. In seven years the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages 5 years ago. How old are they now?
please answer this.. I really need this

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Question 165115: A woman is three times as old as her son,and the sum of their ages id 52.find each person's age.
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Question 165145: A woman id three times as old as her son,and the sum of their ages id 52.find each person's age.
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Question 131579: Mr ree is 4 years older than ms ree, but their actual ages are a mystery, if they tell you that the summ of the squares of their ages is 3706, how old are they?
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Question 165126: A woman id three times as old as her son,and the sum of their ages id 52.find each person's age.
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Question 165127: the sum of the ages of two sister's is 37.the difference between four times the older sister's and three times the younger sister's age is 43.find the age of each sister.
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Question 165258: difference between the ages of two cousins is 4 years. if the sum of thier ages is 42 years. how can i found their ages?

thank you
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Question 165703: A man is now 42 years old and his friend is 33 years old. How many years ago was the man twice as old as his friend was then?
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Question 146358: Write an equation which models how old, in years, you will be when you are 3 times as old as the younger person.
Age now (mother) = 35
Younger person (daughter) age now = 14
age difference = 21 years
mother = X + 21
daughter = X
I was thinking it should be 3x + 21 = 3X.
It's not coming out right. Please help.
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Question 165752: A mother is five times as old as her son. If twice the age of the son is 3 years less than half of the age of the mother, how old are they.
I need help setting this problem up, for some reason I can not figure this out.
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Question 165896: Fred is 3 yrs. older than his sister Mary. In 7 yrs she will be 6/7 of his age. How old are they?
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Question 165932: Paul is 3 years younger than his friend Peter.In seven years, the product of their ages will be five more than the product of their ages five years ago. How old are they now?
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Question 165862: John is 4 years older than his sister and 6 years ago he was twice his sister's age then. How old is each now?
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Question 165863: Fifteen years ago a man was two-thirds as old as he will be in 12 years. How old is he now?
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Question 166050: The sum od Dylan's and Krista's ages is 25. In 12 years, Dylan will be seven years older than four times as old as Krista was five years ago. How old are Dylan and Krista now?
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Question 166037: The two taylor girls were born in consecutive, even years. If the product of their age is 224, how old is each girl?
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Question 166257: Please held me solve this problem:
Mark is 11 years older that his sister. In 8 years he will be twice as old as she will be then. How old are they now?

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Question 166440: The equation V = -2000t + 20,000 describes the value in dollars of a certain model of car after it is t years old. If a car is worth $12,000, substitute 12,000 into the equation to find the age of the car.
o 3 years
o 4 years
o 5 years
o 6 years
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Question 166624: If Leah is 6 years older than her sister, Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?
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