The ages of Phillip and Dheeraj are in the ratio 4:7. The sum of the ages is 22 Find the ages of Phillip and Dheeraj.

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anonymous · Answer

8 and 14

anonymous · Answer

how did you work it out? (:

anonymous · Answer

Well, you have to figure that the numbers will be small, and there can't really be a crazy decimal, so I just plugged in numbers that would fit, 4 and 7 wouldn't, so I doubled that to 8 and 14.

anonymous · Answer

4x+7x=22
11x=22
x=2
4x=[Age of Phillip]=8
7x=[Age of Dheeraj]=14
hope this helped

anonymous · Answer

Jm92 used math. Use his method. Logic probably won't fly with your teacher because you can't show your work.

anonymous · Answer

ah okay