What is his age?

Algebra Level pending

Ram's father's age was 12 times his age 10 years ago. 10 years hence his father will be twice as old as Ram. Now find Ram's present age.

12 16 10 14 9 11 15

Vishwathiga Jayasankar by vishwathiga jayasankar , 20, India

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

  • Form the equations first.
  • Let Ram's age be x and his father's be y
  • Equation 1:
  • 10-y=12(x-10)
  • Equation 2:
  • 10+y=2(x+10)
  • Now solve these equations, you will get,
  • x = 10 x=10
0 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

1 pending report

Vote up reports you agree with

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...