The age of a person is twice the sum of the ages of his two sons and 5 years ago his age was thrice the sum of their ages find his present age
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Let the age of father be x and that of his son be a,b
We have x=2(a+b) and we have been given that 5 years ago we had the following situation which is given by the equation x-5=3(a+b-10)
On solving the above equations we obtain
a+b=25 thus the age of father is 50
We have x=2(a+b) and we have been given that 5 years ago we had the following situation which is given by the equation x-5=3(a+b-10)
On solving the above equations we obtain
a+b=25 thus the age of father is 50
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