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Word Problems For Simultaneous Equations

This document contains 6 word problems involving mathematical calculations: 1) Finding the cost of a pencil and notebook given their combined cost and price difference. 2) Calculating the present ages of a father and daughter given the father's age in 2 years. 3) Determining the present ages of a woman and her son given the woman's age was twice her son's 15 years ago. 4) Figuring out how many adult and child tickets were sold given the total price and individual ticket prices. 5) Working out the price of a coke given the costs of different drink/food combinations. 6) Finding the number of cucumber plants given the total yield from tomato and cucumber plants along with yield per plant.

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Word Problems For Simultaneous Equations

This document contains 6 word problems involving mathematical calculations: 1) Finding the cost of a pencil and notebook given their combined cost and price difference. 2) Calculating the present ages of a father and daughter given the father's age in 2 years. 3) Determining the present ages of a woman and her son given the woman's age was twice her son's 15 years ago. 4) Figuring out how many adult and child tickets were sold given the total price and individual ticket prices. 5) Working out the price of a coke given the costs of different drink/food combinations. 6) Finding the number of cucumber plants given the total yield from tomato and cucumber plants along with yield per plant.

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1. A notebook and a pencil cost $2.64.

If the notebook costs 66c more than the pencil, find the cost of each. 2. A father is 28 years older than his daugher. In 2 years' time he will be 3 t imes as old as his daughter. Find their present ages. 3. A woman is now 30 years older than her son. 15 years ago, she was twice as o ld. What are the present ages of the woman and her son? 4. A total of 925 tickets were sold for $5,925. If adult tickets cost $7.50, an d children's tickets cost $3.00, how many tickets of each kind were sold? 5. 2 cokes and 3 fries cost Dh 21. 3 cokes and 2 fries cost Dh 19. What is the p rice of a coke? 6. A farmer has a total of 150 tomato and cucumber plants. Each tomato plant yie lds 4 kg of tomatoes. Each cucumber plant yields 6 kg of cucumbers. The total yi eld is 710 kg. How many cucumber plants are there?

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