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Select the correct answer. The sum of Sally and Beth's age is 60. Six years ago, Sally was 3 times as old as Beth. What are thei

erastova [34]

Answer:

B. Beth's age is 18 years, and Sally's age is 42 years.

Step-by-step explanation:

You can solve this question in a couple of different ways. First, you can use process of elimination. You know that Sally is older than Beth because she has to be 3 times older 6 years ago, so you can get rid of options C and D because they both show Beth as being older. Now you only have A and B, and you can use a different process. Now from just looking at it, you can tell that A actually already shows Sally as 3 times Beth's age, 15 * 3 = 45. If you go to B, you can go ahead and subtract 6 from 18 (Beth's age) which will give you 12, and then multiply that by 3 to get 36. Now if you take 42 (Sally's age) and subtract 6 from it as well, you will get 36. This means that is lines up. To simplify, you are subtracting 6 from both 18 and 42, and then you are multiplying the lower number by 3 to see if it gets to the bigger number.

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The five members of the Traynor family each buy train tickets. During the train ride, each family member buys a boxed lunch for

larisa [96]

Let's assume

the price of each train ticket is x

we are given

total number of family members =5

so, total cost of ticket = total number of family members*the price of each ticket

so, total cost of ticket =5*x

so, total cost of ticket =5x