SOLUTION: A man passes one-ninth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and one- third in a childless marriage. But after ten years of marriage, the couple had a child. After attain

Question 70205: A man passes one-ninth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and one- third in a childless marriage. But after ten years of marriage, the couple had a child. After attaining one-fourth of her fathers life, the chaos of seemingly random universe of took the child, leaving the man to spend his last 6 years solving algebraic word problems. WHat is the mans final age?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A man passes one-ninth of his life in 
childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and 
one- third in a childless marriage. But after 
ten years of marriage, the couple had a 
child. After attaining one-fourth of her 
fathers life, the chaos of seemingly 
random universe of took the child, leaving 
the man to spend his last 6 years solving 
algebraic word problems. WHat is the man's
final age?

You can ignore everything but these words:

A man passes.....one-third (of his life) in 
a childless marriage. But after ten years 
of marriage, the couple had a child.

Let L = his final age, i.e., his life in years.

(1/3)L = 10

 Multiply both sides by 3

     L = 90

The rest doesn't matter, The man's final age
is 90.

Edwin

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