age word problems
Algebra.Com is a people's math website. It relies on volunteers like you, who create our free content. Creating lessons is easy! Look for other lessons and click on 'view source'. All you have to really know is math. As we can see, Karen is 24 years old. It doesn't matter which equation we use, since the the value for Karen's age must be the same in both cases. Again, it's always a good idea to check our answer. Karen is supposed to be twice as old as Lori. Karen is 24; Lori is 12. How to solve a word problem with a system of equations (example) How to solve a word problem about a system of equations with no solution (example) How to solve a word problem about a system of equations with infinite solutions (example) Systems of equations word problems. If you're seeing this message, it means we're having trouble loading external resources for Khan Academy. If you're behind a web filter, please make sure that the domains *.kastatic.org and *.kasandbox.org are unblocked. Age word problem: Arman & Diya. Sal solves the following age word problem: Arman is 18. Diya is 2. How many years will it take for Arman to be 3 times as old as Diya? Created by Sal Khan. Well, Al's age is x, so twice Al's age is 2x, and 15 more than twice Al's age is 15 + 2x. That equals 45, right? Now we have an equation in terms of one variable that we can solve for x: 45 = 15 + 2x. 1 Get help from our free tutors 2  ===>. Algebra.Com stats: 2467 tutors, 602528 problems solved. 3  View all solved problems on Age_Word_Problems -- maybe yours has been solved already!  Become a registered tutor (FREE) to answer students' questions. Another way of saying this is that Karen's age is 2 times Lori's age. This gives us our first equation: K = 2L. We also know that: 1  in three years the sum of Karen's and Lori's ages will be 42;  in three years, Karen's age will be 3 more than it is now, or K + 3; Word problems can be classified into different categories. Understanding each category will give be an. advantage when trying to solve word problems. All problems in each category are solved the same way. With practice you will begin to see the similarities among word problems and be able to solve them easier. and faster. Age Problems. These types of problems ask you to figure out the age of different people by giving you different clues. 1 Algebra.Com stats: 2467 tutors, 602528 problems solved. 2  View all solved problems on Age_Word_Problems -- maybe yours has been solved already!  Become a registered tutor (FREE) to answer students' questions. Many single-variable algebra word problems have to do with the relations between different people's ages. For example: Al's father is 45. We also know from the information given in the problem that 45 is 15 more than twice Al's age.
These types of problems ask you to figure out the age of different people by giving you different clues.