Marcus is $49$ years old Sydney is the age of $34$ years old how many years ago was Marcus age $2$ times Sydney's age.
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Let x years ago.
Then we have,
49 - x = 2(34 - x)
49 - x = 68 - 2x
x = 19.
So 19 years ago.