SOLUTION: The sum of my father and mother's age is 72. My father will be 6 years older than my mother in five years' time. How old are they now?
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Question 911841: The sum of my father and mother's age is 72. My father will be 6 years older than my mother in five years' time. How old are they now?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The sum of my father and mother's age is 72.
f + m = 72
My father will be 6 years older than my mother in five years' time.
Your father is 6 yrs older than you mother now, before and in 5 yrs time, in short, forever!
f = m + 6
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How old are they now?
Back to f + m = 72
Replace f with (m+6)
m + 6 + m = 72
2m = 72 - 6
2m = 66
m = 66/2
m = 33 yrs is your mother's
You can find your father's age
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