by chemberlicline on November 8th, 2009

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Dorothy is 6 years older than Ricardo. The product of their present ages is twice what the product of their ages was 6 years ago. How old is Dorothy?

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  • by Anonymous on November 8th, 2009

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    d = r + 6

    now you make the equation relating what happened 6 yrs ago, remembering that then they were r-6 and d-6:

    dr = 2(r-6)(d-6)

    plug the first eqn into the second one and solve:

    r(r+6) = 2(r-6)(r)

    you can cancel an r, since r isn't 0!

    r+6 = 2(r-6)
    r=18

    So Ricardo is 18 and his sis is 24.

    +5 for your question

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