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the ages of two friends Sunaina and Tanish are differ by 2 years sunaina's father is twice as old as Sunaina and Tanisha is twice as old as his brother Shiva The ages of sunaina's father and Shiva differ by 40 years

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Let S represent Sunaina's age.

Let T represent Tanish's age.

So 2S - T/2 = 40, 4S - T = 80.

Either S - T = 2 or T - S = 2. Let's try both cases.

Either 3S = 78 or 3S = 82.

Since 82 is not a multiple of 3, S = 26.

So Sunaina is 26 years old and Tanish is 24 years old.

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