SOLUTION: Tutors please help me in getting the solution of this age problem- "How old are u daddy?"asked The son. The father replied,", twelve years later u will be as old as I was 12 y

Question 1047084: Tutors please help me in getting the solution of this age problem- "How old are u daddy?"asked The son. The father replied,", twelve years later u will be as old as I was 12 years ago & I shall be three times as old as you were 12 years ago".Find their present ages.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39626) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
f and s, current ages for Father and Son

twelve years later u will be as old as I was 12 years ago...

...,& I shall be three times as old as you were 12 years ago"

Think through those description parts and the equations which conform to them.

The system of equations summarized is .
Simplify and solve.

Try to eliminate f.

Find now, f.

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