Question 1008894: ratio of age if father to child is 5:3 and mother to child os 5:2. what is the ratio of age of father to mother? Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
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ratio of age of father to child is 5:3 and mother to child is 5:2. what is the ratio of age of father to mother?
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Let me reformulate the problem in an equivalent form:
The ratio of ages of father to child is .
The ratio of ages of mother to child is .
What is the ratio of ages of father to mother?
Now you easily find the answer: this ratio is = .
(Although usually the father is older then the mother, but not nessesary).
