SOLUTION: Kimberly is 2 years older than her sister Charisse the product of their age is 30 how old are they now? Give a solution.

Question 1197737: Kimberly is 2 years older than her sister Charisse the product of their age is 30 how old are they now? Give a solution.
Found 3 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn, math_tutor2020:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c, age for Charisse
c+2, age for Kimberley

-----------solve!

This may give non-whole numbers, so not certain if problem is written correctly.

Further, if you solve for c, you find approximately c=4.567764, but this does not come close enough a whole number of time units.
Answer by ikleyn(52800)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Kimberly is 2 years older than her sister Charisse the product of their age
is 30. how old are they now? Give a solution.
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The problem has no solutions in integer numbers.

It means that the problem is DEFECTIVE.

Avoid posting nonsense to this forum.

Answer by math_tutor2020(3817)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

List out the ways to factor 30
1*30
2*15
3*10
5*6
We focus on the positive factors only.

Unfortunately, none of these pairs are spaced 2 units apart.
If Kimberly was say 1 year older than her sister Charisse, then Kimberly would be 6 and Charisse would be 5.

But there are no integer solutions for this current problem where Kimberly is 2 years older than her sister.

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