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Kelly is 6 years younger than her twin brothers bailey and larry. how old will kelly be when the sum of her brothers ages is 12 more than twice kelly’s?

User Hulvej
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X=Bailey and Larry
X-6=Kelly
Equation:
2(x-6)= 2x+12
This would have more than one solution.
When the equations are the same on both sides, you can plug in any number.
2,15,7,3,etc...

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User Oleg Sklyar
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Let x be the ages of the twin brothers, Bailey and Larry. With this representation, it may be deduced that Kelly's age is x-6. From the given scenario above, the equation that we can generate is,
2x = 2(x-6) + 12
The value of x from the equation is 0.5 which is quite unreasonable.
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