Stephanie s age is 4 years less than 3 times Matthew's age. If the product of their ages is 260, how old is Stephanie?
1 Answer
Dec 7, 2016
Stephanie is 26.
Explanation:
First, let's call Stephanie's age
Now, we can write the two sentences in terms of a math equation:
Now, because the first equation is already in terms of
Now we can solve each term for
and
Because age cannot be negative we will use