SOLUTION: there are four brothers in a store. each brother is two years older than the next. the youngest brother is three times as young as the oldest brother what is the age of the brother

Question 993877: there are four brothers in a store. each brother is two years older than the next. the youngest brother is three times as young as the oldest brother what is the age of the brothers?
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
As stated, this makes no sense.
Say the oldest brother is 10 years old.
The youngest is three times as young
(3 x 10yrs=30 yrs) so the youngest brother
is 30 years younger than the ten year old,
or negative 20 years old, which is not possible.
The youngest brother could be 1/3 as old,
but that is not what the given problem states.
Three times as young would not work with the
two year differential either.
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