SOLUTION: Martina is currently 14 years older than her cousin joey. in 5 years she will be 3 times as old as joey. If you let x represent joey's current age, what expression can you use to r

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Question 1008484: Martina is currently 14 years older than her cousin joey. in 5 years she will be 3 times as old as joey. If you let x represent joey's current age, what expression can you use to represent martina's current age?
Based on your answer, what expression represents joey's age in 5 years? What expression represents Martina's age?
What equation can you write based on the information given?
What is joey's current age? What is Martina's current age?
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DUE TO SOME PROBLEM PLUS SIGN IIS NOT VISIBLE SO I TAKE HELP OF NEGATIVE SIGN ,SO UNDRESTAND IT Let Joey's current age= x and Martina's current age= y then according to question y=x-(-14) & y-(-5)=3(x-(-5)) on solving these equations we get x=2,y=16