SOLUTION: A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the
following riddle to a gossip columnist: “Seven years ago, I
was eleven times as old as my daughter. Now I am four times
as old
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Question 1118198: A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the
following riddle to a gossip columnist: “Seven years ago, I
was eleven times as old as my daughter. Now I am four times
as old as she is.” How old is the movie star?
Please, and recommend me a book of that kind of problems, thanks!
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the
following riddle to a gossip columnist: “Seven years ago, I
was eleven times as old as my daughter. Now I am four times
as old as she is.” How old is the movie star?
Please, and recommend me a book of that kind of problems, thanks!
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y, Movie Star
x, Daughter
The literal description:
--------daughter's age now
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--------movie star's age now
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Age Word description problems such as these can be found in both old and in new Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 textbooks. How old the book will usually not matter.
Answer by ikleyn(52788) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Please, . . . recommend me a book of that kind of problems, thanks!
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It is a typical age word problem.
There is a bunch of lessons on age word problems
- Age problems and their solutions
- A fresh formulation of a traditional age problem
- Really intricate age word problem
- Selected age word problems from the archive
- Age problems for mental solution
in this site.
Read them and become an expert in solving age problems.
Also, you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
- ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.
The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic "Age word problems".
Save the link to this online textbook together with its description
Free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/quadratic/lessons/ALGEBRA-I-YOUR-ONLINE-TEXTBOOK.lesson
to your archive and use it when it is needed.
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