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Age Puzzles
Age Puzzles
four times as old; last year I was three times as old; and this year I am two
and one-half times as old."
What are their ages?
A man had nine children, all born at regular intervals, and the sum of the
squares of their ages was equal to the square of his own. What was the age of
each? Every age was an exact number of years.
"How old are you, Robinson?" asked Colonel Crackham one morning.
"Well, I forget exactly," was the reply; "but my brother is two years older
than I; my sister is four years older than he; my mother was twenty when I