3 years ago

Tom is 4 more than twice Andrews age. Sara is 8 less than 5 times Andrews age. If Tom and Sara are twins, how old is Andrew?

Mathematics

2 answers:

Veronika [31]3 years ago

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Tom and Sara are both 12

Vlad1618 [11]3 years ago

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Andrew= 4 yr.old
Sara=12 yr. old
Tom= 12 yr. old
Basically, what I did was guess and check, but there are other ways also. When I came with Andrew's age of 5 and it was pretty close, I went down to 4 years old and that worked perfect because that way both Tom and Sara are 12 years old.

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