Question

(i) You are 5 years less than your elder brother. Express the age of your elder brother in terms of your age using variable.​

Answer 1

The age of my elder brother is X+5 years.

Given: I am 5 years less than my elder brother.

To find: Have to express the age of my elder brother in terms of my age using a variable.

Solution:

Let my present age be X year.

Here X is a variable.

Now given that my age is 5 years less than my brother's age.

Thus we can say my brother is 5 years older than me.

Thus my elder brother's age in terms of my age using variables is given as-

X+5

The age of my elder brother is X+5 years.