SOLUTION: ​One's intelligence​ quotient, or​ IQ, varies directly as a​ person's mental age and inversely as that​ person's chronological age. A person with a m

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Question 1086018: ​One's intelligence​ quotient, or​ IQ, varies directly as a​ person's mental age and inversely as that​ person's chronological age. A person with a mental age of 20 and a chronological age of 20 has an IQ of 120.  What is the chronological age of a person with a mental age of 35 and an IQ of 140 question mark
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
IQ=k*MA/CA
120=k*20/20, so k=120
use k below
140=120*35/CA
CA=120*35/140=30 years

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