Question 1192961: When Christian and Cynthia were married, Cynthia was two years younger than Christian. How old was Christian on his wedding day if 20 years ago he was twice as old as Cynthia?
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source):
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When Christian and Cynthia were married, Cynthia was two years younger than Christian.
How old was Christian on his wedding day if 20 years ago he was twice as old as Cynthia?
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20 years ago, Christian was 2 years older than Cynthia and twice as old as Cynthia.
Hence, as your common sense tells you, 20 years ago Christian was 4 years old
(while Cynthia was 2 years old).
Hence, now Christian is 4+20 = 24 years old.
It is ALL what we can conclude from the problem.
How old was Christian on his wedding day, we can not extract from the problem,
since it does not say when (or how many years ago) the wedding event was happened.
Solved.
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