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Solving a word problem with two unknowns using a linear...

Huilan's age is three times Thomas's age. The sum of their ages is 88. What is Thomas's age?

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thomas’s age is x
huilan’s age is three times that so 3x
x+3x=88
4x=88
x=22
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