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Mr. Wu's age is 7 years more than twice Angel's age. The sum of their ages is 79. How old is Angel?

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Answer:

24

Explanation:

You want to know Angel's age if Mr. Wu's age is 7 more than twice Angel's and the sum of their ages is 79.

Setup

Let angel's age be represented by 'a'. Then Mr. Wu's age is (2a+7), and the sum of their ages is ...

a +(2a +7) = 79

Solution

Subtracting 7, we have ...

3a = 72

a = 24 . . . . . . divide by 3

Angel's age is 24.

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Additional comment

Mr. Wu's age is 55.

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