SOLUTION: Ratio of Anthony age to Eze age is 4 : 3. Anthony will be 26 years old after 6 years. How old is Eze now?

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Question 1122710: Ratio of Anthony age to Eze age is 4 : 3. Anthony will be 26 years old after 6 years. How old is Eze now?
Found 2 solutions by Theo, MathTherapy:
Answer by Theo(13342) (Show Source):
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let A = anthony's age now.
let E = eze's age now.

A/E = 4/3

anthony will be 26 in 6 years.
that means that anthony is 20 now.
therefore A = 20

A/E = 4/3 = 20/E

cross multiply 4/3 = 20/E to get 4E = 20*3

simplify to get 4E = 60

divide both sides of the equation by 4 to get E = 60/4 = 15

A/E = 4/3

20/15 = 4/3

solution is good.

Eze is 15 years old now.

Answer by MathTherapy(10555) (Show Source):
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Ratio of Anthony age to Eze age is 4 : 3. Anthony will be 26 years old after 6 years. How old is Eze now?

Anthony will be 26 in 6 years' time, so he's now 20.
We then get: , with E being Eze's current age.
Solve for E, which is OBVIOUSLY 15.
That's ALL!!