SOLUTION: A mother is 21 years older than her son. 6 years from now exactly, the mother will be exactly 5 times as old as the child. Where's the child's dad?

Question 891711: A mother is 21 years older than her son. 6 years
from now exactly, the mother will be exactly 5 times
as old as the child. Where's the child's dad?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A mother is 21 years older than her son.

Let the son be S years old
Then the mother is S+21

6 years from now exactly, the mother will be exactly 5 times
as old as the child.

S+21+6 = 5(S+6)
  S+27 = 5S+30
    -3 = 4S
  -3/4 = S  

So the son is negative three-fourths of a year old, which means
he has not been born yet.  Since three fourths of a year
before he is born is 9 months before he is born, he is just
being conceived.

Where's the child's dad?



Having sex with his mother.  LOL



Edwin 

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