SOLUTION: Hi,
Am trying to help my autistic boy and unfortunately am not very good with math. He has a Age Word Problem as below:
Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is e
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Am trying to help my autistic boy and unfortunately am not very good with math. He has a Age Word Problem as below:
Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is e
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Question 637307: Hi,
Am trying to help my autistic boy and unfortunately am not very good with math. He has a Age Word Problem as below:
Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is equal to 4 times Bob's age who is half as old as Bridget. The average age of the 4 children is 8. Write this as an equation, then solve it.
I tried to work out the equations and came out with something as below:
A=Bill's age
B=Ben's age
C=Bob's age
D=Bridget's age
A + B = 4C
D = 2C
A + B + C + D = 32
When I tried to work out the values, am not coming up with a whole number as the answer. Also am getting an invalid age value for A and B as well. What am I doing wrong?
Any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Bill and Ben are brothers the sum of their ages is equal to 4 times Bob's age who is half as old as Bridget. The average age of the 4 children is 8. Write this as an equation, then solve it.
I tried to work out the equations and came out with something as below:
A=Bill's age
B=Ben's age
C=Bob's age
D=Bridget's age
A + B = 4C
D = 2C
A + B + C + D = 32
When I tried to work out the values, am not coming up with a whole number as the answer. Also am getting an invalid age value for A and B as well. What am I doing wrong?
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A + B + C + D = 32
4C + C + 2C = 32
C = 32/7
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D = 64/7
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A + B = 128/7
A & B cannot be determined with the data given, only the sum.
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You would expect integer solutions, but they're not.
Maybe a typo somewhere.
