Can I have help with this?
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Thread Topic: Can I have help with this?
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"If we add the ages of Jim, his father, and his grandfather, we get 137. The grandfather is 70 years older than Jim (not necessarily 70), and Jim is 31 years younger than his father. How old are each three of these people?"
My mind.. went blank. .3. -
...I don't
i don't
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I took once glance and left the thread. -does it again-
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So basically, this is algebra?
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Jim is twelve, I believe. His father is forty-three, and his grandfather is eighty-two.
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....math is a bish.
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Not really, that was actually a fairly simple problem.
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I don't like you anymore. Dx (kidding)
Yup.
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Well, older implies that there's the base value, and your other variables added to each base value. So you subtract 31 and 70 from 137, and divide what's left by the amount of people for your base value. Hope that made sense.
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Sel...you have to understand I barely understand basic math, let alone a word problem.
Dark: Yup. :P -
Thank you for this, by the way. I feel like s--- so a story problem was exactly what I needed.
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