document.write( "Question 1097152: in 1996 Adam was 26years old and his mother was 66 years old, in what year was adam exactly one-third of his mothers age. \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "The above answer is incorrect.  Sorry, Amalm, but the mother was \r\n" );
document.write( "YOUNGER THAN 66 before 1996, when Adam was one-third of her age.\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "In 1996 Adam was 26 years old and his mother was 66 years old.
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document.write( "Let x be the number of years before 1996 that he was one-thid of\r\n" );
document.write( "his mother's age.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then x years before 1996, Adam was 26-x\r\n" );
document.write( "Also x years before 1996, his mother was 66-x\r\n" );
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document.write( "So\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve that for x, beginning by multiplying both sides by 3 to\r\n" );
document.write( "clear the fraction.  That value of x will be the number of \r\n" );
document.write( "years before 1996 that he was one-third of his mother's age. \r\n" );
document.write( "Then subtract that number of years from 1996 to find what year \r\n" );
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