SOLUTION: It is Khadijah�s birthday today. One year from now she will be twice as old as she was 10 years ago. Calculate the present age of Khadijah.

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Question 1102468: It is Khadijah�s birthday today. One year from now she will be twice as old as she was 10 years ago. Calculate the present age of Khadijah.
Found 2 solutions by Theo, josgarithmetic:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
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let x = the age of khadijah today.
1 year from now, khadijah will be x + 1 years old.
1 year from now, she will be twice as old as she was 10 years ago.
10 years ago, she was x - 10 years old.
your equation is x+1 = 2 * (x-10)
simplify to get x+1 = 2x - 20
add 20 both sides and subtract x from both sides of this equation to get:
21 = x
that's the age of khadijah today.
1 year from now she will be 22.
10 years ago she was 11.
22 is equal to 2 * 11.
this confirms that 1 year from now she will be twice as old as she was 10 years ago.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39626) (Show Source):
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