SOLUTION: how old is a boy if his years is average of his mother's years and his father is five years older than his mother and their age altogether is hundred years.

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Question 1121461: how old is a boy if his years is average of his mother's years and his father is five years older than his mother and their age altogether is hundred years.
Found 3 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by ikleyn(52776) About Me  (Show Source):
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This English is unreadable and is far out the bounds of my understanding. So poor it is.


Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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(1) Description and question ambiguous
(2) Also incoherent

The age of a boy CANNOT be any average of his mother and father: "how old is a boy if his years is average of his mother's years and his father is".

Who? Just the two, or all three?
" and their age altogether is hundred years."

Answer by MathTherapy(10551) About Me  (Show Source):
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how old is a boy if his years is average of his mother's years and his father is five years older than his mother and their age altogether is hundred years. 
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I took the average of his mother's age to mean 1%2F2 his mother's age, or his mother being twice his age, which somehow doesn't make sense since an average 

usually includes at least 2 expressions. Nonetheless, that's how I arrived at the above answer. 

You need to better state a math problem if your desire is to get sensible answers, unless of course that's the way the problem was stated to you, which I somewhat doubt!