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Tedman"Xp"

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

Peace.
 
Originally posted by Tedman"Xp"
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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Could you please rephrase the question using shorter, more concise sentences?
 
Well, Thats the problem . There is nothing else If you can solve it ,do it .If you don't , Im not involved.:D
 
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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
Okay, thanks. The sentences look very odd and nonsensical as they are.
 
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.
 
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?
 
Originally posted by Tyler
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
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How does that answer the question? They asked for the professor's age.

The question doesn't make sense.
 
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.
 
Originally posted by Tedman&quot;Xp&quot;
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?
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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. :(
 
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.
 
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:p
 
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