Argh! Ok, so i’m doing my math homework right. And I have a crap load! So I do the simple stuff first, before I go onto my outline of a 40 page article (yes for math). While doing my math I come across a problem that’s supposed to be a quick refresh of what we already know… and yet for some reason no matter how I do it I can’t get the correct answer. Perhaps I just need sleep, but my mind is bouncing around and laughing at me like a damn loony toon and I can’t figure out how to get the answer. SO, I was wondering if anyone on here could point out how to get the answer. Because i’ve tried 6 different formulas and I can’t seem to get the right answer with any of them.
Problem is as followed:
In 3 years Jay and Kay will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary (50th). Kay would not reveal her age. However, Jay said that he is 4 years older than Kay, and on their golden wedding day, the sum of their ages will be 3 times the sum of their ages on the day that they were married. How old are Jay and Kay?
Btw, the answer is 70 and 74. How to get those though I can’t figure it out. I’ve tried doing things backward from those two solutions and still couldn’t get a working formula.
I thought in order to do it you would need to reduce it to one variable and solve for that one. So I did J for Jay, and K for Kay. So wouldn’t it be J=K+4? Which means the sum of those two would be K+(K+4)? So that settles it down to one variable which we can solve. Apparently though that doesn’t work. Or maybe i’m doing something else wrong.
Kirupa you turbo geek (just kidding), help me!!!:tb:
EDITED: It can’t be K+(K+4) because then that would mean the sum of that is = 3(K+(K+4))-50. And that’s a false statement.
