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\n" ); document.write( "Please be polite and look at how you have written your question before you submit it to us.
\n" ); document.write( "\"How could Angeles be in 5 years.\" -- makes no sense!
\n" ); document.write( "We know what you are really asking; but it shouldn't be our job to figure it out.
\n" ); document.write( "You should know how to solve problems like this using formal algebra; it is good training when you get to more complicated problems where algebra is required.
\n" ); document.write( "But you can get some good mental exercise by solving the problem by logical reasoning.
\n" ); document.write( "Here's one (quite unorthodox!) way to do that.
\n" ); document.write( "You are told that Angeles is 5 years younger than her husband Joseph, and that the sum of their ages is 63 years; and you are asked to find how old Angeles will be in 5 years.
\n" ); document.write( "So add 5 years to her age. The result will be her age in 5 years, which is what the problem is asking for.
\n" ); document.write( "Furthermore, since she is actually 5 years younger than her husband, adding 5 years to her age makes her the same age as him.
\n" ); document.write( "And when you add 5 years to her age, the sum of their ages is now 68.
\n" ); document.write( "But now you have the sum of two equal ages being 68; that means each one is 34.
\n" ); document.write( "So 34 is the age Angeles will be in 5 years. \n" ); document.write( "