if you like word problems please help me out!!!

Question

anonymous · Answer

Maya and Sally were the two finalists in a singing competition. The person with the most votes from the audience was chosen as the winner. Sally received 25% of the total votes and lost by 62,500 votes. No person in the audience was allowed to vote more than once. The equation below represents this situation, where y is the total number of votes cast and x is the number of votes Maya received.

x - 62,500 = 0.25y

If a total of 125,000 people voted, how many votes did Maya receive?

anonymous · Answer

Coach Johnson is 10 years older than Tim. When Tim started football 3 years ago, Coach Johnson was twice his age. How old is Tim now?

anonymous · Answer

here are two out of my 5!

terenzreignz · Answer

Le gasp :)
I kinda like age problems, so let's settle things between ol' Coach Johnson and Tim ^_^

anonymous · Answer

ok!

terenzreignz · Answer

The first step to word problems like these is to represent values.. We're looking for Tim's age, so we might as well let Tim's age be x.  
Okay? :)

anonymous · Answer

yea!

terenzreignz · Answer

So, what is Coach Johnson's age?

anonymous · Answer

ten years younger then x

terenzreignz · Answer

Younger??

anonymous · Answer

older!!!

terenzreignz · Answer

Older... so what is the coach's age in terms of x?