SOLUTION: A father tells his son,"I was your age when you were born". If the father is 36 now, how old was the boy five years back?
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Question 763344: A father tells his son,"I was your age when you were born". If the father is 36 now, how old was the boy five years back?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x is son's age now. Father is now 36. If you subtract x from 36 for Father, then subtract x from son's x age when son was born, age 0.
when_______Father__________Son
Now________36______________x
SonBorn____36-x___________x-x=0
Father was when son was born, when son's age was 0.
because add x to both sides
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