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Question 12980: Kenneth's age is 5 yrs older than Alvin. Find there present ages if the product of Kenneth's age 4 yrs. from now and Alvin's age 5 yrs. ago is 51.
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Question 13130: when you devide a neg into a neg do you get a positive
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Question 13327: BOB'S FATHER IS 3 TIMES OLD AS BOB. 4 YEARS AGO HE WAS 4 TIMES OLDER. HOW OLD IS BOB?
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Question 13458: Peter is x years old and his sister is5 years older. If the product of their age is 84 form an equation in x and solve it to find Petr's age.

I would really appriciate it if you would assit me in this Thanks.
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Question 13789: X is 6 years younger than Y, and the average of their ages is twice X age 5 years ago, how old are they?
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Question 14281: 3x-10=18-4x
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Question 15213: The sum of Carol's and Sandy's ages is 47. In 10 years Carol will be 10 years older than Sandy was 7 years ago. Find their present ages.
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Question 15582: godfrey is 5 years olderthan mary. write expressions for the following (a) godfrey's age when mary is t years old. (b)mary's age when godfrey is x years old.
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Question 16202: For the school play,Christi sold 5 tickets less than 3 times as many as Puge sold. Ace sold twice as many as Christi.Togrther the three students sold 65 tickets.How many did each one sell?
This is what I got:
Puge=x
Christi=3x-5
Ace=2(3x-5)=65
x+3x-5+2(3x-5)=65
x+3x-5+6x-10=65
10x=65
10x/10=80/10
x=8
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Question 16343: I have a really hard time on getting the formula on word problems. I read them, understand what they are asking, I even get the answer but cannot seem to translate the words on to the paper in a form of a equation.
The problem I am having trouble on is:
"Batman is 20 years older then robin. In 4 years, Batman will be twice Robin age. How old are they now?"
I get..
Robin=x
Batman=20+x(Batman older by 20 years )
Batman=2(20+x)( Batman where he is twice as Robin)
The answer I get is that Batman is 36 right now, and Robin is 16, because in 4 years Batman is going to be 40, and Robin 20, Batman is TWICE Robin's age. 20x2=40...
Please help me in getting Enlgish translated into Algebra equation.

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Question 16484: The joint ages of A and B is 82 years. In 6 years times A will be twice as old as B was 4 years ago. Determine their ages now ??
please help i'm really confused.... THANKS
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Question 16503: tom is 5 more than twice alex's age. How old is he?
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Question 13693: Abbey practices piano each day. Here are the songs she plays and the time it takes to play them
Evening bells 2minutes
scottish dance 1 minute
Air by mozart � minute
A. can she play each song ten times in half an hour ?
b.How long she play if she warms up for five minutes and then plays each song six times ?
i'm 3 grade student .
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Question 16961: can you please help with this question...
Joseph is 4 years older than twice his sisters age. In 4 years time he will be 11 years older than here. How old is Joseph now
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Question 17016: Five years ago, Tom was one third as old as his dad was then. In 5 years, Tom will be half as old as his father will be then. Fine their ages now.
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Question 17897: Jane is twice as old as Tom. In 8 years their ages will total 70. How old is each now?
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Question 18303: I want to know what I need to do to solve this thanks.
Henry is three times as old as Jane. In 3 years Henry will be x years old. In terms of x, how old will Jane be then?
Jane's Age then = ?
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Question 18466: Bill is 1 year less than twice as old as his sister Caroline.
The total of their ages is 26.
How old is Bill now? Please help!
Thanks1
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Question 18536: I am asking this question from memory (Hope it makes sense), ok here it goes:
Shop A has 5 more tools than shop B. Shop B has 3 more tools than shop C. How many tools does shop A have?
Can this be solved, or am I missing something(s)?
Thanks!
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Question 18658: Aaron is twice as old as Jack. The sum of their ages three years ago was 45 years. How old are they now?
My problem is when I get the solution, the ages are backwards.
Now Aaron = 2 Now Jack
(Now Aaron - 3) + (Now Jack -3) = 45
Now Aaron + Now Jack = 51
Now Jack = 51 - Now Aaron
Substitute-
Now Aaron = 2(51 - Now Aaron)
Now Aaron = 51 - 2 now Aaron
3 Now Aaron = 51
Aaron = 17
Jack = 34
But Aaron is supposed to be twice Jacks age not half it.
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Question 18813: You are 6 years older than you sister. She is 4 years older than your brother. Write expressions to show your age and your sister's age, if your brother is 4 years old. Please explain how you found your answer. Thank you.
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Question 18916: Could you please explain how to write this problem in an equation?
Bob is 4 years younger than 3 times Jerry's age. Together their ages add to 32. How old are Bob and Jerry?
My mother figured out that the answer is that Bob is 23 and Jerry is 9 but she did not know how to set it up in algebaic form.
I appreciate your help.
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Question 19348: a half of what John's age was 4 years ago is equal to one third of what it will be in 5 years time.How old is John
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Question 19378: Zack is 2 years older than Jimmy. Last year Zack was 3 times as old as Jimmy. How is Zack now?

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Question 19811: jason is 1 year older than twice his bro's age. the difference of their ages is 18. find their present ages.
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Question 20537: I need to solve the following:
Mallory is 23 years older than Lisa. Draw a graph showing Mallory's age as a function of Lisa's age for the first 40 years of Lisa's life. Find the point on the graph when Mallory is twice as old as Lisa.
Thanks,
Teri
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Question 21307: mary is 15 years older than herb sister jane six years ago mary was 6 times as old as jane what are their present ages
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Question 21189: Jim is k years old. Joe is k2 (k squared) years old. In 8 years Joe will be twice as old as Jim is then. How old is Joe now? NEeds to be done as a "Zero Product Property"
0 = k+8(2)
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Question 20145: Please help!
Three years ago, pat was half as old as Duane. Seven years from now, Duane will be as many years older than Pat as Pat's age is three years ago. How old is Duane now if he is 4 years older than Pat?
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Question 20144: Tom is 8. His mom is 31. How long before she is twice his age?
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Question 21592: Bob's brother is 2 times his age. Bob is 6. How old is Bob's brother?
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Question 21591: how old is billy if he is 6 times older then his brother and his brother is 7
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Question 21833: I need someones help so bad so it would be a big help if u could help me on this!! ok the problem is Latisha and Maisha are twins. They have a brother who is eleven yeas younger than them and an older sister who is four years older. The sum of the ages of all four siblings is 69. Find Latisha's age. use an algebraic equation
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Question 22398: Mary is "y" years old. Her father is 4 times older than Mary. Her mother is 7 years younger than her father. If the three ages add up to 101 years, find the value of "y". Find the ages of Mary's parents.
Thanks in advance!
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Question 22403: 2 years ago, Greg was 3 times older than his brother. In 4 years, he will only be 2 times older. What are their present ages?
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Question 23167: When I am as old as my father is now, I shall be five times as old as my son is now. By then my son will be eight years older than I am now. The combinded ages of my father and myself are 100 years. How old is my son?
Father=x Myself=y Son=s
x=5s x+y=100 5s=y+8 y/5=s
5(y/5)+y=100

I just don't know how to solve this. Please help. Thank you

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Question 23887: Ben wanted to know how old his friend Mr. Stone was. Mr. Stone told him, "I started school when I was 4-1/2 year old, and I stayed at the same school for 1/6 of my life. I was in the army 1/5 of my life and when I left the army I spent 1/4 of my life as a clerk. Now I have spent 1/3 of my life in retirement." How old is Mr. Stone?
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Question 24020: Mrs. Kwok is 6 years more than 3 times as old as her daughter. Eight years ago she was 2 years less than 9 times as old as her daughter was then. Find each of their ages.
And also:
The sum of 7 times Paul's age and 4 times Kent's age is 111. Kent is 1 year less than four times as old as Paul is. Find each of their ages.
I would like to see it worked out step by step, please.
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Question 24439: Mike's age is three-fourths of Mary's age. In 5 years Mike's age will be 7/9 Mary's age. How old is Mike now?
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Question 24710: In 15 years, Maya will be twice as old as David is now. In 15 years David will be as old as Maya will be 10 years from now. How old are they now?
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Question 25050: help please: Deanna is five more than six times older than Ted. Twice the sum of their ages is 94. How old is Ted?
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Question 25060: Ross is six years older than twice his sister Holly's age. The difference in their ages is 18 years. How old is Holly?

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Question 25365: Paul is twice as old a Justin. In 15 years Paul will be 9 years older than Justin will be. How old is Paul now?
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