document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1205495>Question 1205495</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Janet is presently one-sixth as old as her<BR>\n" );
document.write( "mother. Her mother’s age, when divided<BR>\n" );
document.write( "by 2, 3, 4, 6, or 8, always leaves one<BR>\n" );
document.write( "remaining year. This is not so when her<BR>\n" );
document.write( "mother’s present age is divided by 5, for<BR>\n" );
document.write( "then there is nothing left over. How old<BR>\n" );
document.write( "is Janet’s mother?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "How old is Janet? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "We can guess what the proper presentation of the problem is supposed to be....  But as presented, the problem is nonsense.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Word problems involving people's ages only make sense if the ages are whole numbers of years.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "In this problem, the mother's age divided by 2 leaves 1 year left over, so the mother's age in years is an odd number.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "But Janet's age in years can't be one-sixth of an odd number, because one-sixth of an odd number is never a whole number.<br><BR>\n" );
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