hiiiii Can you solve this?

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  1. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    The age of the professor is ... My son is 26 younger than I am and my grand-daughter; his daughter is 22 younger than he is . The age of mine and my grand daughter add up to 62. Whats the age of the professor? Use variables please.
     
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  3. goofyfish Analog By Birth, Digital By Design Valued Senior Member

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    Will everybody else in your class be
    getting their answer from the internet?

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    Peace.
     
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  5. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    Could you please rephrase the question using shorter, more concise sentences?
     
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  7. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    Well, Thats the problem . There is nothing else If you can solve it ,do it .If you don't , Im not involved.

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  8. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    Here is another:
    The Governor was having tea with the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State asked the Governor how many children she had. The Governor answered "Three daughters." When the Secretary asked their ages, the Governor answered, "The product of their ages is 36 and the sum is my house number." The Secretary ran outside to look at the house number. He came back and said, "I looked at your house number, but I still don't know how old your daughters are." When the Governor said, "The oldest one likes blueberry pancakes", the Secretary knew their ages. How old are the daughters?
     
  9. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    The problem is, two of the sentences make no sense.

    "My son is 26 younger than I am and my grand-daughter"

    And your grand-daughter what?

    "The age of mine and my grand daughter add up to 62."

    The age of mine and my grand-daughter? What "mine"?

    It needs to be said differently.
     
  10. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    What grade you in there ted?

    Your age..............x <-------I'm guessing this is the prof.
    Son's age............(x-26)
    Daughters age....[(x-26)-22]


    Then the equation...............

    x+[(x-26)-22]=62
    x+(x-48)=62
    2x=62+48
    2x=110
    x=55


    Sooooooooo. Your age is 55. Son's age (x-26) is 29. His daughter's age (x-48) is 7. 55 + 7 is equal to........(drum roll)...........62!!!!!!!

    Remember Ted, always start by naming the top variable as just 'x' and work everything else as relative to 'x' in linear equations.



    The second one makes no sense to me
     
  11. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    The semi-colon does not belong there Adam. It means to read....'My son is 26 younger than I am and my grand-daughter (his daughter) is 22 younger than he is'

    Or something like that. The grand-daughter is his daughter.
     
  12. Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    Okay, thanks. The sentences look very odd and nonsensical as they are.
     
  13. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    so do you think the professor is the son of the one tht is narrating the problem?
     
  14. Tyler Registered Senior Member

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    Is that the exact question, word for word? Please check.
     
  15. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    no but you can realize that the professor would be younger than the narrator .
     
  16. Voodoo Child Registered Senior Member

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    2,2,9 assuming the Secretary of State is not just a dumb ass and that the pancakes have honey, but not maple syrup on. And that it is Tuesday.
     
  17. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    Derwitt Duddly had an assignment to draw a picture of his family. “They won't all fit on this piece of paper,” he wailed loudly in class.

    “What exactly is your problem, young man?” enquired his teacher, Ms. Im. Patient.

    My family has 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 grandmother, 1 grandfather, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren , 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and 1 daughter-in-law, and they won't all fit on the paper.

    “I'm sure you can manage.” stated his teacher, emphatically.

    Can you help Derwitt out? What is the smallest possible number of people in his family?

    Can you solve it?
     
  18. Mallory Knox Banned Banned

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    How does that answer the question? They asked for the professor's age.

    The question doesn't make sense.
     
  19. Mallory Knox Banned Banned

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    If the product is 36 the possibilities are

    1-1-36 sum 38
    1-2-18 sum 21
    1-3-12 sum 16
    1-4-9 sum 14
    1-6-6 sum 13
    2-2-9 sum 13
    2-3-6 sum 11
    3-3-4 sum 10

    So the door number must have been 13 or else he would have known right away.

    Then when she said "THE oldest" he knew the oldest weren't twins so he knew the ages were 2, 2 and 9.
     
  20. Mallory Knox Banned Banned

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    him, his two sisters, his parents, his mother's mother and his father's father...7??

    1 brother = him,
    two sisters= his sisters,
    2 sons = him, his father,
    2 daughters = his sisters (also his mother though),
    1 grandmother= his mother's mother,
    1 grandfather = his father's father
    2 fathers = his father, his father's father
    2 mothers = his mother, his mother's mother
    1 father-in-law = his father's father (to his mother)
    1 mother-in-law = his mother's mother, to his father
    1 daughter-in-law = his mother, to his father's father
    4 children = him, his sisters, his parents (that makes 5)
    3 grandchildren = him, his sisters

    I think I'm wrong because there's actually 3 daughters and 5 children in my version.

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  21. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    You are right . When I was solving it I got 8 members that had to be impossible because I couldnt figure out where 1 extra child came from. I thought it as the father's sons but he was an adult not a child ... Anyway the correct answer is 7 people in his family.
     
  22. Mallory Knox Banned Banned

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    Oh, cool!

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    Then why is there actually 3 daughters and 5 children?

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  23. Tedman"Xp" Registered Senior Member

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    There are only 4 children = sisters , brother and father which is the son of the grand-fathers' 3 children. Matematically it is represented as 1 + 2 + 1 = 4 children

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