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Alejandra is asked about her age. She answers as follows. "My age is 8 years less than five times the age of
my son. The sum of our ages is 58 years."
How old is Alejandra?
years

Sagot :

Answer:

s0 lets make it easy

58-8=50

Extra: her son age is 10 nbecause it said 5 times so 10x5=50 .

So alejandra is 50 years old

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer:

47 yr.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x = son's age

Then 5x - 8 = Alejandra's age

So x + 5x - 8 = 58

6x - 8 = 58

6x = 66

x = 11 = son's age

Therefore Alejandra's age = 5(11) - 8 = 47

Check.  11 + 47 = 58

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