Question

Jyoti’s mother’s age is 25 years more than half the age of Jyoti.If Jyoti’s age is x years make the

expression showing her mother’s age.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Jyoti is 4x older than her daughter.

If daughter is a years old, then jyoti is 4a years old.

After 5years,

Daughter's age will be a+5 years and jyoti's age will be 4a+5 years old.

According to the condition given for their ages 5years hence, we have

Daughter's age= a+5 years

Then jyoti's age= 3(a+5) years

Now,

We have two different terms for jyoti's age which both denote jyoti's age. So we can simply equate them and solve.

4a+5=3(a+5)

Using BODMAS,