A mother is 4 times as old as her daughter is, and she is 27 years older than her daughter. How old are they?
This is a mathamatic problem so we will make 2 equations from the question. And by substuting in the equation we can solve it.Let us assume daughter age to be x years, and mother age to be m years.
Then m = 4x.
Substituing m with 4x, then 4x -x =27.
3x = 27.
x =9 age of the daughter.
Mother is 4 times the age of her daughter i.e 9 multiply by 4 =36.
Daughter age is 9 years and her mother is 36 years.
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