SOLUTION: A girl was born 35 years after her mother.what fraction of her mothers age will the girl be at age 15.

Question 1129030: A girl was born 35 years after her mother.what fraction of her mothers age will the girl be at age 15.
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
mother was 35 when girl was born. Girl now 15, mother 35+15 = 50
the girl is 15/50.
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Imagine this is a cake. The whole cake is divided into 50 slices. The daughter is the equivalent of 15 slices, or 15 out of 50; you can also write it as 15:50 or as 15/50
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In the last case, 15/50, you need to simplify by finding common factors for these two numbers:
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15 is divisible by 1, 3, 5, 15
50 is divisible by 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50
so the only common factor is 5:
15/5 = 3
50/5 = 10
the girl is 3/10 her mother's age
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