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two years before paul's age is 2 times the alice age and present age of paul is 6 times the alice .what is present paul's age

Asked In TCS Ranjini (13 years ago)

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nikhil anand  (13 years ago)

the answer is 3...
as p-2=2a
and p=6a..
solve n get answer

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Lalit Kaushik  (13 years ago)

can't evaluate because
if alice age before 2 year is x
then paul's age =2x
and now
2x+2=6(x+2)
which can;t be solved
so either this question is incorrect or It can't be evaluated

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Mayank Jain  (13 years ago)

we cant evaluate paul's present age cause during calcilation it will be in minus sign.

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ramkumar.n  (13 years ago)

Question Is In-Correct ....

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Ashu  (13 years ago)

In normal case, the ratio of ages decreases with time.
If qn is
two years before paul's age is 6 times the alice age and present age of paul is 2 times the alice .what is present paul's age .
Then present age of paul is 5 yrs and that of alice is 2.5 yrs... double
2 yrs before, age of paul was 3 yrs and that of alice was 0.5 yrs... 6 times

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Biswajyoti Biswas  (13 years ago)

let paul's present age =P
& alice's present age=A
accordin to qstn.......
P-2=2A........
& P=6A
so by calculatin i get the present age of Paul is 3 years.........
if wrong.....plzz send da correct answer to ma id......(papaionly@gmail.com)

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