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\n" ); document.write( "The mental exercise you get from solving a math problem should be the act of solving the problem -- not the act of trying to understand what the problem says.
\n" ); document.write( "Two of the four sentences in the statement of the problem seem to have nothing to do with the problem; get rid of them.
\n" ); document.write( "Or, if they do have some meaning, that meaning is not at all clear.
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\n" ); document.write( "\"My age is the exactly 3 times my son's
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\n" ); document.write( "\"The sum of my son's age and my age
\n" ); document.write( "next year is 54\"
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\n" ); document.write( "Of the two sentences remaining, the meaning of the first is clear.
\n" ); document.write( "But the meaning of the second sentence is not.
\n" ); document.write( "Literally, the sum of 54 is the son's (current) age and the father's age next year.
\n" ); document.write( "But it is likely, or perhaps probable, that the sum of 54 is the sum of both their ages next year.
\n" ); document.write( "I have wasted a lot of my time writing this response.
\n" ); document.write( "Please if you are serious about wanting help learning how to solve your problems, present them clearly.
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