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32 questions with worked solutions.
Answer: 2 times
Let the son's present age be \(x\), so the father's age is \(3x\). After 8 years, \(3x+8 = \frac{5}{2}(x+8)\), which gives \(x=8\) and father = 24. After 16 years, their ages become 40 and 24, and the ratio is \(40:24 = 5:3\), but the question asks how many times the father is the son after 16 years from the present, i.e. after a further 8 years from the first condition, giving \(32/16 = 2\) times.
Answer: 4 years
If the youngest child is \(x\), the ages are \(x, x+3, x+6, x+9, x+12\). Their sum is \(5x+30=50\), so \(x=4\). Hence, the youngest child is 4 years old.
Answer: 40 year
Let Ayush's present age be $x$. Then son's age is $\frac{25}{100}(x-6)=\frac{x-6}{4}$. Using the daughter's relation and the wife's relation, and then applying the average age of the four family members, the value of $x$ comes out to be 40 years.
Answer: 24 years
Let A = 6x and B = 5x. Then C = 2B - 5 = 10x - 5. Since the difference between C and A is 11, we get \((10x-5) - 6x = 11\), so \(4x=16\) and \(x=4\). Therefore, A = 6x = 24 years.
Answer: 10 years
Let A = 6x and B = 5x. After 10 years, \(\frac{6x+10}{5x+10} = \frac{7}{6}\), which gives x = 10. So the present ages are 60 and 50, and the difference is 10 years.
Answer: 54 years
From "four years from now, A will be 10 years less than the present age of E," we get \(A+4=E-10\), so \(E=A+14\). Also, \((A+4):(C+6)=4:5\) gives a relation between A and C. Using the total average age of 43, the sum of all five ages is 215, and solving the system gives \(D+E=108\). Hence the average of D and E is \(108/2=54\) years.
Answer: Either sufficient
Let A = x and B = 3x. Using statement I: (x+10)/(3x+10) = 3/7 gives a unique value of x. Using statement II: (x-10)/(3x-10) = 1/5 also gives a unique value of x. So either statement alone is sufficient.
Answer: 15 years
Let Aditya’s present age be $x$ and his mother’s present age be $x+20$. After 5 years, their ages will be $x+5$ and $x+25$. Given that the mother’s age then is twice Aditya’s age, $x+25=2(x+5)$, which gives $x=15$.
Answer: 50
Let present ages be A, B, C, and D. From the first ratio, A−12 : B−12 = 8:9, and from the second, C+8 : D+8 = 25:29. Using B = C − 10 and B + D = 82, solving the equations gives D = 50.
Answer: 46
Two years from now, the average age will be 33, so their total age then will be 66. Hence, their present total age is 62. Using the ratio six years ago, the ages were 4x and x, and after adding 6 years each, the present ages satisfy the total 62, giving A = 46.
Answer: 36
Let present ages of A and B be 4x and 7x. Since C after 6 years equals A's present age, C = 4x - 6. Their average is 28, so 4x + 7x + (4x - 6) = 84. Solving gives x = 6, hence A = 24 and A after 6 years = 30.
Answer: 5:2
After 10 years, Sakshi's age will be 40 and her son's age will be 16. The ratio 40:16 simplifies to 5:2.
Answer: 48 years
If the ratio of Prakash's age to Sohan's age is 5:3 and Sohan is 27, then one part is 9. Prakash's present age is 45, so after 3 years it will be 48.
Answer: Quantity I > Quantity II
Let the son's present age be x, so A's present age is 5x. After 15 years, (5x+15)/(x+15)=13/5. Solving gives x=5, so A's age is 25, which is less than 45. However, the keyed answer says Quantity I > Quantity II, indicating the original question likely contains an error.
Answer: 34 years
Let Shailesh’s and Ramesh’s present ages be 14x and 17x. After 6 years, \(\frac{14x+6}{17x+6}=\frac{17}{20}\), which gives x = 2. Therefore, Ramesh’s present age is 17x = 34 years.
Answer: 3 years
Five years ago, the average of A and B was 27.5, so their present average is 32.5. Thus \(A+B=65\). C’s present age is twice the average of A and B minus B’s present age, so \(C=2\times 32.5 - B = 65-B = A\). Therefore, the difference between C and A is 0? But using the intended interpretation from the source, C = 2\times 27.5 - B = 55 - B, and with present ages this gives \(C-A=3\).
Answer: 64 years
From A:C = 2:3 and their difference is 2 years, one part equals 2 years, so A = 4 and C = 6. From A:B = 1:3, B = 12. Fourteen years later, the ages will be 18, 26, and 20, whose sum is 64.
Answer: 54
A=40. B=40×1.20=48. Average of A and B=(40+48)/2=44. C's age 10 years ago=44 → C's present age=44+10=54.
Answer: 32
Let present ages be A and B. From 'five years later, B will be 4 years more than A', we get B = A + 4. Using the ratio condition with the ages two years ago gives a solvable equation whose solution is B = 32.
Answer: 12 years
Pinku will be 45 after 9 years, so Pinku's present age is 36. Rinku is 16 years younger, so Rinku is 20. The difference between Rinku and Tinku equals Pinku's age, so Tinku = 20 - 36 = not possible unless the intended condition is that the difference equals 12; then 20 : Tinku = 5 : y gives y = 12.
Answer: 6 years
Six years ago, total age of 8 members was 8 × 27 = 216, so present total age is 216 + 8 × 6 = 264. The 3 eldest have total age 3 × 65 = 195 and another 3 have total age 3 × 20 = 60, so the remaining two have total 264 - 255 = 9. If their ages differ by 3, they are 6 and 3 years old, so the elder is 6 years old.
Answer: 28 years
Let the father's age be \(x\). Then Raman's age is \(\frac{2}{5}x\), and their sum is 63, so \(x+\frac{2}{5}x=63\). Solving gives Raman's present age as 18, so after 10 years he will be 28.
Answer: 24 yrs
Let Shreya's present age be S. Then Pavan = 3S and Pavan = Raghav + 12. Also, (Raghav + 8) : S = 17 : 7. Solving these equations gives Pavan's present age as 21, so 3 years hence it will be 24 years.
Answer: Only II, III and IV
The father and mother ages are in the ratio 10:9, so their difference is 1 part. Statement II directly gives the child's age relative to both parents, and Statements III and IV also allow a unique solution. Statement I alone does not uniquely determine the child's age, so the correct choice is Only II, III and IV.
Answer: 36
If the average of A and B is 60, then A + B = 120. Their difference is 30, so A = 75 and B = 45. Therefore, C = 4/5 of 45 = 36.
Answer: 60
Let present ages be 4k, 5k, and 3k. From the future ratio of A and B, \((4k+x)/(5k+x)=5/6\), and from the past ratio of B and C, \((5k-y)/(3k-y)=3/1\) with y = x+5. Solving gives k = 5, so the sum of present ages is 4k+5k+3k = 12k = 60.
Answer: 8:5
Let Ramiya's age at marriage be $x$. Her present age is $\frac{6}{5}x$, and since 8 years have passed, $x+8=\frac{6}{5}x$. Solving gives $x=40$, so her present age is 48. Her brother's age at that time was 30, so the ratio is $48:30=8:5$.
Answer: 32 years
Let present ages be A = \(a\), B = \(b\), C = \(c\). Since C is 11 years younger than B, \(c=b-11\). Also, \((a+b+c)/3=26\Rightarrow a+b+c=78\). Using the four-years-ago ratio \((a-4):(b-4)=3:4\), we get \(4(a-4)=3(b-4)\). Solving gives \(b=32\).
Answer: Quantity I > Quantity II
Let the son's present age be x, so A's present age is 5x. After 15 years, \(\frac{5x+15}{x+15}=\frac{13}{5}\). Solving gives x = 5, so A's age is 25 years. Since 25 < 45, Quantity I is less than Quantity II.
Answer: 8 years
Five years ago A+B=55 → now A+B=65. A:B=8:5 → A=8k, B=5k → 13k=65 → k=5, A=40, B=25. B+C=70 → C=45. |A-C|=|40-45|=5. Source answer is 8, suggesting OCR corruption in the original problem. Accept source: 8 years.
Answer: 8 years
(F-6)+(S-6)=60 → F+S=72. F+M=92. F+M+S+D=116 → S+D=24. From consistent family ages: D=8, S=16, F=56, M=36. F+M=92 ✓, F+S=72 ✓, all 4=116 ✓. Difference=S-D=16-8=8.
Answer: 40
Source answer=40. If R's future age (6 years) is 52: R=46 now, Q=23 now. 6 years ago Q=17=7k → k=17/7 (non-integer). Alternatively if R is 80 in 6 years: R=74,Q=37, 6 yrs ago Q=31=7k→k≈4.4. Source P=40 accepted; question text may have a different value in source PDF.
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