Applications store keeps asking me to update applications I don't own.

I bought a used MacBook Pro a while ago.  I love this machine, but the previous owner must have had 3 applications that were not sold to me.  The App Store is always trying to get be to upgrade these applications.  It always covers the upper right corner of the screen.  I can make it go away for a little while, but it keeps coming back.  If I agree to upgrade the Apps that I don't own, it prompts me with the original owner's login, and asks for her password.  Of course, I don't know her password, and I don't have the Apps to upgrade.
How to I tell it I don't  have those Apps. and never what to upgrade them?

The only apps that she could legally "sell" to you are the apps that are part of OS X, in fact she can only actually pass to you the version of OS X that shipped on the Mac when it left the factory. What should be done with a second hand Mac is the HDD should be completely erased and the original iteration of OS X installed and updated to the most recent version. Then set up the Mac as  new device with your own Apple ID.
User Linc Davis explains how a new owner can prepare a 2nd hand Mac for their own use.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25468326

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