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Lenny is 3 times older than Max. When you subtract Max's age from lenny's age, you get 24. How old is Lenny and how old is max? Write an equation that represents the situation and solve the equation. Show your work.

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Let Max be
x years.

Then Lenny is
3x years

When we subtract Max's age from Lenny's age we obtain
3x-x

This is equal to
24

Putting all together we have


3x-x=24


2x=24


x=12


<p><B> Therefore Max is 12 years and Lenny is 36 years</p> </B>
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