{"id":21657,"date":"2016-02-16T20:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=21657"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:50:33","slug":"age-word-problems-in-math","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/age-word-problems-in-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Age Word Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Age Word Problems<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Age Word Problems in Math\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_0NaYiS7RXCI\"><div id=\"lyte_0NaYiS7RXCI\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F0NaYiS7RXCI%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Age Word Problems in Math<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0NaYiS7RXCI\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F0NaYiS7RXCI%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Age Word Problems in Math\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Hi and welcome to this is video lesson on age word problems. Yes, the crazy, confusing, tricky age word problems where you&#8217;re given a bunch of names, and ages, and code, but don&#8217;t worry we&#8217;re going to find the straightforward way to solve for one of these problems.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look. Mike, Gavin, and Bella are siblings. Mike is 3 years older than twice Bella&#8217;s age. Gavin is 5 years younger than Mike. If Bella is 4, determine the age of her siblings. Ok, so we need to sort through these names and ages before we get confused. Let&#8217;s take three steps to do that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong> Create a little table of things we know. Since there are three people, let&#8217;s put down their names, Bella, Mike, Gavin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Let&#8217;s put their age equations into our table. First, let&#8217;s say Bella&#8217;s age is \\(X\\), because her brothers ages depend on hers, so Bella is \\(X\\) years old. Mike is twice Bella&#8217;s age, plus 3 years, so let&#8217;s do 2 times \\(X\\), plus 3 for Mike. Gavin is 5 years younger than Mike, so let&#8217;s go ahead and use Mike&#8217;s equation, minus 5, which is \\(2X\\) minus 2.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we know that let&#8217;s go ahead and work on Step 3: To solve for the ages of Bella and her brothers. In the last part of the problem we were told to substitute 4 for Bella&#8217;s age, so let&#8217;s go ahead and say that \\(X\\) is equal to 4.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s a given, then we know Mike\u2019s and Gavin&#8217;s age because all we have to do is plug 4 in for \\(X\\). For Mike, 2 times 4, plus 3 is equal to 11, for Gavin, 2 times 4, minus 2 is equal to six, so we know that Bella is 4, Mike is 11, and Gavin is 6.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps. Thanks so much for watching this video lesson, and until next time, happy studying.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age Word Problems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-21657","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_category-math-advertising-group","6":"page_category-word-problems","7":"page_type-video","8":"subject_matter-math"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278968,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657\/revisions\/278968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}