SOLUTION: simon's age is half his father's age.If the product of their ages 10 years age was 600 years , how old are they?

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Question 1074753: simon's age is half his father's age.If the product of their ages 10 years age was 600 years , how old are they?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


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Only positive solutions make sense here,


So then,



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