SOLUTION: Onyango is five times older than his son and twenty five times older than his daughter, find the sum of their ages
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Question 1152134: Onyango is five times older than his son and twenty five times older than his daughter, find the sum of their ages
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(1) "older than"? or "as old as"? They mean different things.
5 times as old as x is 5x. 5 times older than x is x plus 5x, which is 6x.
(2) No ages are given in the problem, so it is not possible to find the sum of the ages.
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