SOLUTION: a father was 30 years old when his daughter was born and the product of their present ages is 736. how old are they now

Question 894458: a father was 30 years old when his daughter was born and the product of their present ages is 736. how old are they now

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Today, y years later:

Father is 30+y;
Daughter is 0+y;

Do you want to try factoring?
2, 4, 8, 16, 46, 92, 184, 368
A pair there looks like a good possibility.

The meaningful solution is , the daughter's age.
Father is .

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STUDENT STILL CONFUSED

Daughter was born y years ago. We do not yet know y. The father was 30 years old at that time.
Let fathers age TODAY be ;
Daughter's age TODAY is ;
She was born y years ago, and her age at birth was 0.

TODAY at present, the product of their ages is .
We want to solve this equation for y. This equation is the same as ;
simplify:

---Quadratic Equation in standard form.

We should factor the quadratic expression if it is possible.
Here is a list of factorizations of 736, ignoring signs:

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Which of those pair of factors will be able, with appropriate choice of signs, give
a sum of 30 ?
We are trying to find some a and b so that .
TEST EACH PAIR of ; ONE of them WILL WORK.
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When you find which a and b will work, you need to choose the needed signs for a and b.
Remember, the objective right now is to factoirze .

The factorization which works is .

Next, the objective is to solve this factorized equation.
The Zero-Product rule tells us that either or .
One of the solutions is meaningful and the other solution is not.
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makes sense.
does not make sense.

NOW we have solved for y.

What is father's age and daughter's age presently, today?
Father: .
Daughter: .

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