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Age Problems

Formulas and Quick Tricks for Age Problems

1. If the current age is x, then n times the age is nx.


2. If the current age is x, then age n years later/hence = x + n.
3. If the current age is x, then age n years ago = x - n.
4. The ages in a ratio a : b will be ax and bx.
5. If the current age is x, then 1/n of the age is x/n

Example: A father and his son decide to sum their age. The sum is equal to sixty years. Six years ago the age of the
father was five times the age of the son. Six years from now the son’s age will be?

Solution: Suppose that the present age of the son is = x years. Then the father’s age is (60 -x) years. Notice that we are
trying to reduce the problem into as few variables as possible. As per the second condition of the question, we have:

The age of the father six years ago = (60 – x) – 6 years = 54 – x years.

Similarly the age of the son six years ago will be x – 6 years. Therefore as per the second condition, we have;

54 – x = 5(x – 6) or 54 – x = 5x – 30 and we can write 6x = 84

Hence, we have x = 14 years. Thus the son’s age after 6 years = (x+ 6) = (14 + 6) = 20

Example: The difference in the age of two people is 20 years. If 5 years ago, the elder one of the two was 5 times as old
as the younger one, then their present ages are equal to?

Solution: Let the age of the younger person be x. Then the age of the second person will be (x + 20) years.

Five years ago their ages would have been x – 5 years and x + 20 years.

Therefore as per the question, we have: 5 (x – 5) = (x + 20 – 5) or 4x = 40 or x = 10.

Therefore the ages are 10 years for the younger one and (10 + 20) years = 30 years for the elder one

Practice Questions

1. Yasir is fifteen years elder than Mujtaba. Five years ago, Yasir was three times as old as Mujtaba. Then Yasir’s
present age will be?

2. What is John’s present age, if 10 years later his age will be 5 times his age 6 years ago?

3. Rahul is 15 years elder than Rohan. If 5 years ago, Rahul was 3 times as old as Rohan, then find Rahul's
present age.

4. Raj's age is 4 times that of Dhiraj, his cousin. 3 years back, Raj was 5 times as old as Dhiraj. What is his
present age?

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5. The average of Rajesh's and Brijesh's age is 65 years. The average of Rajesh, Brijesh and Chetesh's age is
53 years. Find Chetesh's age?

6. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is the age of the
youngest child?

7. A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your birth". If the father's age is
38 years now, the son's age five years back was?

8. Father is four times the age of his daughter. If after 5 years, he would be three times of daughter’s age, then
further after 5 years, how many times he would be of his daughter’s age?

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