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Problems On Ages With Shortcuts
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But, the people in our competitive exams are lil different. They wont answer any question
in direct manner. Instead of it saying a number, they just will say you some fraction or
ratio, or just link their age to their relatives' or friend's age and ask you to guess their age.
Ofcourse it sounds irritating. Usually we give a dirty look at the person and let him / her go
in their way. But in exams, we don't have any other option except finding their real age. So
here are some shortcut techniques to made the process of finding ages easier.We shall
discuss the tricks with some examples so that you easily can understand them.
1. The average age of Khan, Kapoor, Kumar, Bachhan and Roshan is 28 years. The
average age of Bachhan and Roshan is 25 years. What is the average age of Khan, Kapoor
and Kumar ?
Solution :
Here 5 persons' average ( Khan, Kapoor, Kumar, Bachhan and Roshan) age is = 28 Years.
= 140-50 = 90 years.
Shortcut Method :
2. The ratio between the ages of Kareena and Sonam is 5:8 respectively and difference
between their ages after 5 years will be 12 years. What is the present age of Kareena ?
Solution :
Usually for these type of questions people start with present age as X and adding 5 to get
the ages after 5 years and later solve those equations. But its very time consuming.
A simple logic here is if the age difference between you and your friend is 8 years, after 5
or 10 years also the difference will be same. Hope you are getting what I am trying to say
;)
3. Abhi is 30 years younger than his mother Jaya. Five years ago, Abhi was 1/4 as old as
his mother was. How old is Abhi today ?
Solution :
5 years ago the ratio between their ages was Abhi : Jay a= 1X : 4X
we know that Hari is 30 years younger than Jaya. That means the difference between their
ages is 30.
But this is the age of 5 years ago. So, the present age will be =10+5 = 15 Years
4. At present the ratio of the ages of Anand and Milind is 4 : 7 respectively. 6 years hence
it will be 7 : 10 respectively. What is the present age of Milind ?
Solution :
Present ratio of their ages is 4 : 7 (So their present ages will be 4X, 7X)
=> 9x = 18
=> x = 2
Shortcut :
=> X = (3 x 6) / 9 = 2
5. Ten years ago the ratio between the ages of Mohan and Suman was 3:5 respectively.
11 years hence it will be 11:16 respectively. What is the present age of Mohan?
Solution :
here the difference between ages is 21 years (10 years ago + 11 years hence)
==> X = (5 x 21) / 7 = 15
6. Amar is as much younger than Raja as he is older than Kiran. If the ages of Amar and
Raja are 30 years and 36 years respectively, what is the age of Kiran now ?
Solution :
Simple logic....
Amar is as much younger than Raja as he is older than Kiran. Try to understand this
sentence. According to this sentence you can understand that
Amar is younger than Raja that means there is some X years difference between
Amar and Raja.
Amar is older than Kiranwith same age difference (X years) between Amar and
Kiran.
But we know that the ages of Amar and Raja are 30 and 36 years.
We know the age of Amar as 30 years and Kiran is younger than Amar for 6 years. So he
should be of 24 years.
With a single glance you can calculate answer for these type of problems.
7. The average age of a class of 20 students is 20 years. When the age of the teacher is
also included, the average will be increased by 2 years. What is the age of the teacher ?
Solution :
Simple logic,
we know that 20 students' average = 20 years
20 people total age = 20 x 20 = 400 years
Including Teacher's
8. The average age of a wife and husband, who were married 10 years ago, was 20 years
then. Including a child the present average age of the family is 23 years. What is the
present age of the child?
Solution :
to calculate their present total age, you should add 20 (10 for wife and 10 for husband) to
the age of 10 years ago
=> 40+20 = 60 years (this is the present age of husband and wife) ----------- (1)
according to the given data, present average age of the family of 3 members is = 23 years
so from equations (1) and (2), we can get the present age of the child is = 9 years
9. Five years ago the average age of a family of five members was 27 years then.
Including a child the present average age is still same today. What is the age of the child
now ?
Solution :
so from (1) and (2), you can easily get that the present age of the child is 2 years
10. The ratio between the ages of Karan and Arjun is 9:5 and sum of their ages at present
is 56 years. How old will karan be after 4 years ?
Solution :
so x = 4
Note : To explain the calculation process in clear, we have mentioned these many steps
for every problem. But in exams you should do almost all of these calculations mentally
and try to avoid writing every single step.
That's all for now friends. Hope we made the concepts of Ages easy now. Feel free to use
the comments box below to reach us if you have any doubts. We will answer. All the best
and happy reading :)
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Swathiprit Shetty
3 years ago
thank u... :)
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Aanchal Verma
3 years ago
Excellent Post. I don't know who is writing these articles. But please tell that guy that he is going
to be a best teacher. God bless team :)
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Vishnu
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yallappa
3 years ago
Whenever I was writing any bank clerk exam ssc exam I am always facing difficulty with age
related problems some time I left these problems.But this article help to me solve age related
problem with easy & quickly.Thank thank u very much...
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Shiv RK
3 years ago
Yep friend it does. Assume any number of people may be there. Obviously their age increases at
the same time right? So does the average. 1 for every year.
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Mounika Sambaraju Shiv RK
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Shobhit Awasthi
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thankyou very much mam please put some more shortcuts in reasoning and aptitude
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Plz ...also menstion question n short cut method regarding ...time n work ....time n distance
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gud job..... :)
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