SOLUTION: Staff Billy
"My age is the exactly 3 times my son's
age"
"The sum of my son's age and my age
next year is 54"
Cabinet is "me and my son"
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"My age is the exactly 3 times my son's
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"The sum of my son's age and my age
next year is 54"
Cabinet is "me and my son"
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Question 1154853: Staff Billy
"My age is the exactly 3 times my son's
age"
"The sum of my son's age and my age
next year is 54"
Cabinet is "me and my son" Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:Answer by ikleyn(52790) (Show Source):
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.
Two of the four sentences in the statement of the problem seem to have nothing to do with the problem; get rid of them.
Or, if they do have some meaning, that meaning is not at all clear.
"My age is the exactly 3 times my son's
age"
"The sum of my son's age and my age
next year is 54"
Of the two sentences remaining, the meaning of the first is clear.
But the meaning of the second sentence is not.
Literally, the sum of 54 is the son's (current) age and the father's age next year.
But it is likely, or perhaps probable, that the sum of 54 is the sum of both their ages next year.
I have wasted a lot of my time writing this response.
Please if you are serious about wanting help learning how to solve your problems, present them clearly.
