SOLUTION: If it takes 25 years for one generation to beget the next, what is the greatest possible number of male forebears living in 1100 A.D. from which a child born in 1950 could claim de
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Question 200022: If it takes 25 years for one generation to beget the next, what is the greatest possible number of male forebears living in 1100 A.D. from which a child born in 1950 could claim descent?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(1950-1100)/25=850/25=34 ans.
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