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If Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 5 years older than Leah, and the total of their ages is 41. Then how old is Sue?

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by Josue025 at June 04, 2011

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Set up an equation. We know that Leah is 6 years older than Sue, and John is 11 year solder than Sue. So....Sue   Leah      John x + (x + 6) + (x+11) = 41Now we can solve for x (Sue).3x + 17 = 413x = 24x = 8Sue is 8 years old.

JoshuaThomas JoshuaThomas June 04, 2011

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let the age oSue=x  Leh=x +6 John=x+6+5=x+11 Total=x+x+6+x+11=41 3x+17=41 3x=24   x=8 sue is 8 yers o

chitra003 chitra003 June 05, 2011

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