When was he born?

On 13th April 2017 Andrew says, "By the end of today, I will become exactly 18.2 years old."

When was Andrew born?

If your answer is 4th March 1986, write your answer as 19860403 (YYYYDDMM).


The answer is 19993101.

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2 solutions

If you use a calculator, then we can find the day he was born on, at precisely 12:00 AM.

To find the total number of days elapsed, we take 31 + 28 + 31 + 13 and we subtract .2(365) which results in 30. This is the amount of days since January 1st, so that makes it the 31st.

To find the year we look at a relation: he is 18 in 2017, 17 in 2016, and so forth. We can modify this equation to y = x - 1, with no regard to the first 2 digits. If we input 0, then we get -1. However, this function is in relation to the year 2000, so 2000 - 1 = 1999. The birthday is January 31st, 1999.


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Saharsh Rathi
Mar 14, 2017

( . 2 ) (.2) years = . 2 × 365 .2\times 365 = 73 73 days = 13 a p r + 31 m a r + 28 f e b + 1 j a n { 13 }_{ apr }+{ 31 }_{ mar }+{ 28 }_{ feb }+{ 1 }_{ jan }

Since we are going backwards, 1 1 day of January means he was born on 31 s t J a n u a r y { 31 }^{ st }\quad January .

Since he is 18 18 years old, he was born in 2017 18 = 1999 2017-18=1999 .

Hence he was born on the day - 31 s t J a n u a r y 1999 \boxed{{ 31 }^{ st }\quad January\quad 1999} .

I have reposted this problem as its answer was not correct.

saharsh rathi - 4 years, 2 months ago

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