nicholasjones938 nicholasjones938

Today at 12:53 PM
Mathematics

Answered

The combined age of three relatives is 120 years. James is three times the age of Dan, and Paul is two time the sum of the ages of James and Dan. How old is each person

Answer :

Ifychyibe Ifychyibe

Today at 12:58 PM

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent Dan's age

3x be James'age

Paul 2(3x+x)=6x+2x

Suming all ages

x+3x+6x+2x=120

Solving for x

12x=120

x=10 (Dan's age)

3×=30 (James'age)

6×+2×=80(Paul's age)

Answer Link

Other Questions

Suppose that a business school reports that 37% of its graduate students have an engineering background, and 24% have a social science background. In addition,

If a company finds that a new product concept is acceptable and should be moved forward, what is the next step in the new product development process? A. Mark

Consider a circle of radius 1 with center at the point A = (1; 0). Let O denote the origin. A point B is chosen at random on the circle (not inside). Let X deno

Explain how nurture and nature can contribute to the development of obesity. What are the two most convincing pieces of evidence that both genetic and environme

Buster leaves the trailer at noon and walks towards the studio at a constant rate of B miles per hour. 20 minutes later, Charlie leaves the same studio and walk

Is the Earth living or non living?

With reference to the Indian freedom struggle, which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the given events? * Choose the correct answer Pa

Rewrite the following sentence in ascending order 4/8 3/4 8/12 11/16

Zoo to be avoided Eassy.

Explore scripts / automation ideas / etc from Le0Developer/c

The separates the places larger than 1 from those that are fractions of 1, such as tenths, hundredths, etc. (2 words)

Krypton, a developing nation, has a reputation for being unsuitable for conducting business due to its poor communication and transportation systems. Its distri

Rebecca has herpes, and although she is sexually active, she does not share this information with her partners for fear of their rejection. According to the Mal

Cardiac muscle and some types of smooth muscle have the ability to contract without any external stimuli. True or False

Ray delivered 3/8 of the newspapers on his route in the first hour and 4/5 of the rest in the second hour what fraction of the newspapers did Ray deliver in the

Steven is buying a new mountain bike on layaway for $297. If he makes a down payment of $25 and pays $34 each week, how many weeks will it take Steven to pay fo

Solve for x. −3/4 (x+2)=6

The sum of two numbers is 27. One number is 3 more than the other number. Write and solve a system of equations to find to two numbers

It actually began as a way to prevent strong emotional attachments. Couples were assigned for the sole purpose of species survival. Children were reassigned to

Choose the solution to this inequality. 4/3<−8/3y A. y < −1/2 B. y > 1/2 C. y < 4/3 D. y > 4