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hilitarys age is 3 times greater than 2/3 times lily age. if hilitary is 19 years old how old is lily

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Lily is 24 years old
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The question has a typo (It is 3 years older than 2/3 times Lily's age). I attached the correct question below.

Answer:
Lily is 24 years old

Step-by-step explanation:
Assume that Lily's age is x and that Hilitary's age is y.
We are given that:
Hilitary's age is 3 years greater than 2/3 times Lily's age
This means that:
y = (2/3 x) + 3

Now, we are given that:
Hilitary's age is 19 years old.
This emans that : y = 19

Substitute with y = 19 in the above equation and solve for x as follows:
y = (2/3 x) + 3
19 = (2/3) x + 3
19 - 3 = (2/3) x
16 = (2/3) x
48 = 2x
x = 48/2
x = 24

Hope this helps :)
hilitarys age is 3 times greater than 2/3 times lily age. if hilitary is 19 years-example-1
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