Martina is currently 14 years older than her cousin joey. in 5 years she will be 3 times as old as joey. use this information to answer the following questions.

if you let x represent joey’s current age, what expression can you use to represent martina’s current age?

based on your answer to part a, what expression represents joey’s age in 5 years? what expression represents martina’s age in 5 years?

what equation can you write based on the information given?

what is joey’s current age? what is martina’s current age?

1. Martina is given to be 14 years older than Joey who is x years old. Hence, the age of Martina can be expressed as, x + 14
 2. If Joey's current age is x then in 5 years he will become x+5 years old.
 3. Martina's age will be her current age added with 5 making it, x+14+5 or x + 19.
4. The equation that would best represent the given scenario in this item is: x + 19 = 3(x + 5)
 5. From the given above, the value of x is equal to 2. This is Joey's current age.
 6. The current age of Martina is x + 14 which is equal to 16.