Five years ago, Arjun was three times Shriya's age today; he is now twice as old. What is the current age of Arjun and Shriya?

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Concept: To begin resolving this issue, set Arjun's age to x and Shriya's age to y. Now, use Arjun and Shriya's ages to do several operations to find two relations that connect their ages. This approach makes it simple to determine what value x is. Thus, we may determine their current ages using this.
Let's say that Arjun is 'x' years old.
Shriya is the age of 'y' years.
As of right now, Arjun is twice as old as Shriya, according to the question. This provides the initial relation, from which we derive equation

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5 years ago,
Age of Arjun

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Shriya's age

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Arjun's age was three times Shriya's five years ago, according to the query. This provides the second relation, from which we derive equation