document.write( "Question 840920: If Harlem was born on January 17, 1965 , how old was she on February 6th, 1997? How do go about figuring this out.\r
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document.write( "January 17 is the 17th day of the year.\r\n" );
document.write( "Since January has 31 days, February 6 is the 31+6 or 37th day of \r\n" );
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document.write( "She was exactly 1997-1965 or 32 years old on January 17, 1997.\r\n" );
document.write( "February 6, 1997 was 37-17 or 20 days after her birthday.  So we \r\n" );
document.write( "calculate what fraction of a year 20 days is of one year.  Since \r\n" );
document.write( "there were 365 days in 1997 (it wasn't a leap year), the fraction \r\n" );
document.write( "of a year she was after her birthday is  which reduces\r\n" );
document.write( "to . So she was  years old on February 6th, 1997. \r\n" );
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