Question

The sum of Ellie's age and Genya's age is 60. In six years, Genya will be eight times older than Ellie will be. How old is Ellie now?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

after isolating x, you get: x = 2, or Ellie's age being 2. And when you plug it in to your original condition x + y = 60, you get y = 58, or Ganye's age being 54. You can check your answers by adding 6 to both of these numbers ( 2 + 6 = 8, 58 + 6 = 64) and seeing that 64 is indeed 8 times greater than 8.