SOLUTION: Bernard is 5 times older than Victor. Victor is five years older than Peter. If the sum of their ages is 65 years, how old will Victor be in 7 years?
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Question 1165138: Bernard is 5 times older than Victor. Victor is five years older than Peter. If the sum of their ages is 65 years, how old will Victor be in 7 years?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, ikleyn:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Faulty problem description....
"Bernard is 5 times older than Victor" means Bernard's age is Victor's age, PLUS 5 times Victor's age -- i.e., 6 times Victor's age. Then
x = Peter's age
x+5 = Victor's age (5 years older than Peter)
6(x+5) = Bernard's age
The sum of their ages is 65 years:
Solutions to age problems have to be whole numbers....
If you want, you can use work similar to that shown above to solve the REAL problem -- in which Bernard is 5 times AS OLD AS Victor, instead of 5 times OLDER.
Answer by ikleyn(52788) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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WARNING (!) (!) (!)
If you formulate the problem in this way as you do in this post, you will NEVER know
a) NEITHER if the formulation is correct
b) NOR if the solution/answer is correct
This form "Bernard is 5 times older than Victor" does not work in formulations of Math problems in English.
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