SOLUTION: a man is five year older than his wife and 7 times as old as his son when the son was born the age of the wife was five all over six hats of husbands age.find their ages?

Question 857338: a man is five year older than his wife and 7 times as old as his son when the son was born the age of the wife was five all over six hats of husbands age.find their ages?

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let their present ages be m, w, s
write an equation for each statement, simplify
:
a man is five year older than his wife
m = w + 5
and 7 time older than his son
m = 7s
when the son was born, the age of the wife was that of the husbands age.
subtract the son's age from both
w - s = (m - s)
replace m with 7s
w - s = (7s-s)
w - s = (6s)
Cancel 6
w - s = 5s
w = 5s + s
w = 6s
In the first equation m = w + 5
replace m with 7s, replace w with 6s
7s = 6s + 5
7s - 6s = 5
s = 5 yrs is the son's age:
I'll let you find the man and the wife's ages

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