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 70208: 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 jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the man's age be the unknown value x. To get started, imagine a man spending half of his life sleeping and the other eating. The equation to solve that unknown age would be
just let the man be 100, (100/2+100/2=50+50=100)
Now we're dealing with more fractions in this problem

Solve for x

So the man was 72 when he died. Hope this helps.
RELATED QUESTIONS
A man passes one-ninth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and one- third in... (answered by Edwin McCravy)

a man passed one-sixth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth and one-seventh in... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

A man passed one-sixth of his life in childhood, one twelfth in youth and one seventh in... (answered by Mathtut)

A man passed one sixth of his life in childhood, one twelfth in youth, and one seven more (answered by robertb)

Diophantus passed one-sixth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, one-seventh... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Diophantus of Alexandria, a third century mathmatician, lived one-sixth of his life in... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Hi! I have this age problem that is really complicated. I looked at some previous... (answered by josmiceli,ikleyn)

Diophantus a greek mathematician is considered by many as the "Father of Algeria" because (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

about all we know of Diophantus personal life is that contained in the following summary... (answered by Edwin McCravy)