Question

Rakesh’s age is kess than samia’s age by 5 years. The sum of the ages is 27 years. How old are they?

Answer 1

Since the difference between Rakesh's age and Samia's age is 5 years, we first subtract that from their total ages.

27 - 5 = 22

Then, without the age difference of 5, both of them have the same age. Therefore, we will divide 22 between both of them.

22 ÷ 2 = 11

Therefore, Rakesh's age is 11 since he is the younger of the two.

Since Samia is 5 years older than him, Samia's age is 11 + 5 = 16.