<PRE><B>Question 1144370</B>
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Be careful to convert the given information correctly into an equation to be solved.&lt;br&gt;
You apparently started with&lt;br&gt;
x = girl&#39;s present age&lt;br&gt;
Then you did&lt;br&gt;
3+2x = 3 years older than her present age&lt;br&gt;
Good so far.&lt;br&gt;
By the way, perhaps a better expression here would be &quot;2x+3&quot;.  &quot;3 years older than her present age&quot; implies that the 3 is added to twice her present age, instead of the other way around.  Algebraically, they are of course the same.  But the advantage of the alternate expression is for the case where the information said  &quot;3 years less than her current age&quot;.  In that case, careless interpretation might lead to &quot;3-2x&quot;, where clearly the correct expression would be &quot;2x-3&quot;.&lt;br&gt;
So now the information says that the girl&#39;s age 8 years from now will be 3 more than twice her present age.  You wrote that as&lt;br&gt;
3+2x = 8&lt;br&gt;
But &quot;8&quot; is not &quot;8 years more than her current age&quot;.&lt;br&gt;
Her current age is x; what is the correct expression for &quot;8 more than her current age&quot;?&lt;br&gt;
Put that correct expression on the right hand side of your equation and you will have an appropriate equation to solve simply to find the answer to the question.</PRE>