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Originally Posted by Talisman
Dr I,
Sally is now twice Susan's age. In five years, Susan will be two years younger than Sally is now. Five years ago, Susan was seven years younger than Sally was. How old are they now?
Mathematically Challenged
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Susan is 14 and Sally is 7.
Now...the rest of the lesson is that math problems like this only occur in school. Never in the real world. This information is just taking up space in your brain that could be used to remember that square, square, Triangle, Circle circle Square is the Finishing move for the Blue guy on Mortal Kombat.
Iowanian is not a mathematician and will assume any further mathematic questions are intentional provocation.