SOLUTION: A man passes one-ninth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and one- third in a childless marriage. But after ten years of marriage, the couple had a child. After attain
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Question 70208: A man passes one-ninth of his life in childhood, one-twelfth in youth, and one- third in a childless marriage. But after ten years of marriage, the couple had a child. After attaining one-fourth of her fathers life, the chaos of seemingly random universe of took the child, leaving the man to spend his last 6 years solving algebraic word problems. WHat is the mans final age? Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let the man's age be the unknown value x. To get started, imagine a man spending half of his life sleeping and the other eating. The equation to solve that unknown age would be just let the man be 100, (100/2+100/2=50+50=100)
Now we're dealing with more fractions in this problem Solve for x
So the man was 72 when he died. Hope this helps.
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