faith is 16 years older than precoius in 10 years time. faith will be double Precious age. How old is precious?​

6 years old

Step-by-step explanation:

Let represent Faith's current age and let represent Precious's current age.

Faith is 16 years older than Precious:

In 10 years' time, Faith will be double Precious's age:

We can substitute the top equation into the bottom equation:

We can combine like terms on the left side and expand out the right side:

We can subtract p from both sides, and then subtract 20 from both sides to get:

This means Precious is 6 years old.

gregory's graph is incorrect because it shows 2 inches of growth for each week when it should show 0.75 inches of growth each week.

y = - 6

step-by-step explanation:

given the point (- 2, y) lies on the graph then it is a solution of it's equation.

substitute x = - 2 into the equation for value of y

y = 3(- 2) = 3 × - 2 = - 6

the point on the graph is (- 2, 6)