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Question 477972: I have a word problem with ages and I need to know what euaation I would use to solve it. First you should know the ages in question are 27 and 8.here is the question: At some point during the lives of you(27) and the youngest person(8), your age will be three times his/her age at that moment. Write an equation which models how old in years each of you will be when you are three times as old as the younger person.
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let x be the number of years from now.
27 + x = 3 * (8 + x)
multiply out to get:
27 + x = 24 + 3x
subtract x from both sides of the equation to get:
27 = 24 + 2x
subtract 24 from both sides of the equation to get:
2x = 3
divide both sides of the equation by 2 to get:
x = 1.5
in 1.5 years, your age will be 28.5 years old and the younger person's age will be 9.5
3 * 9.5 = 28.5