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Jessie is 45, his age is 5 years more than 4 times sals age how old is sal?

User Dennbagas
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Sal is 10 years old. If you want to check you can do 10*4+5 and get 45

User Mabead
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Set up an equation:

45 = 4x +5 Subtract 5 from both sides.
40 = 4x Divide by 10 on both sides
10 = x.

Sal is 10 years old.
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