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Write the given sentence as an equation. Tim’s age in 7 years will be three times what it was 19 years ago.

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First, we need to break up the sentence as part of the equation.
Tims age in 7 years...
t + 7
in 7 years Tims age will be...
t-19

We'll end up with: t + 7 = 3(t – 19)
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