SOLUTION: The family ages all added up is 100 and the father is 50 the child is half the mothers age how old is the child and the mother

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Question 942027: The family ages all added up is 100 and the father is 50 the child is half the mothers age how old is the child and the mother
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The family ages all added up is 100 and the father is 50 the child is half the mothers age how old is the child and the mother
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The sum of the child and the mother is 50 (assuming there are only the 3 of them, which was not stated --> a poorly worded problem)
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Child's age = 16 2/3
Mother's age = 33 1/3
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