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500 reduced by 4 times my age is 232 .

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Well 500 reduced by 4 times my age is 232...
The first step to discover the age (I'll assume that's your question) is subtract 232 from 500 500-232 equals 268. Divide this by 4 to get 67. Boy, that's a pretty old age. Hope this helps!
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For this case, what we want to do is determine the age of the person.

For this, we define the following variable:

x: age of the person.

We write now the equation that models the problem


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Clearing x we have:


4x = 500-232


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Answer:

The age of the person is 67 years

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