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Use appropriate method to solve the following. 1. If twice the age of a son is added to age of a father, then the sum is 56. If twice the age of the father is added to the age of son, then the sum is 82. Find the ages of father and son. 2. In a two-digit number, the sum of the digits is 13. Twice the tens digit exceeds the units digit by one. Find the numbers. 3. I am thinking of a two-digit number. If I write 3 to the left of my number, and double this three digit number, the result is 27 times my original number What is my original number?​

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Let the age of the son be $s$ and the age of the father be $f$. From the first equation, we have $2s + f = 56$, and from the second equation, we have $f + 2s = 82$. Solving this system of equations, we get $s = 12$ and $f = 32$, so the son is 12 years old and the father is 32 years old.

Let the two-digit number be $10t+u$, where $t$ is the tens digit and $u$ is the units digit. We are given that $t+u=13$ and $2t-u=1$. Solving this system of equations, we get $t=7$ and $u=6$, so the two-digit number is $76$.

Let the two-digit number be $10x+y$, where $x$ is the tens digit and $y$ is the units digit. We are given that $2(10+x+y) = 27(10x+y)$, or $20+2x+2y = 270x+27y$. Simplifying this equation, we get $268x-25y = 10$. Since $y$ is a digit, we know that $0 \leq y \leq 9$. We can check that $x=1$ is too small, so we try $x=2$. Plugging in $x=2$, we get $536-25y=10$, which gives $y=21/5$, which is not a digit. Thus, there is no solution for a two-digit number.

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