2006 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 3
- The following problem is from both the 2006 AMC 12A #3 and 2006 AMC 10A #3, so both problems redirect to this page.
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The ratio of Mary's age to Alice's age is . Alice is years old. How old is Mary?
Solution 1
Let be Mary's age. Then . Solving for , we obtain
Solution 2
We can see this is a combined ratio of , . We can equalize by doing , and . With the common ratio of and difference ratio of , we see . Therefore, we can see our answer is correct.
See also
2006 AMC 12A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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