Question

A man is currently 20yrs older than his oldest son. His oldest son is currently two yrs older than his youngest son. Three years from the current time, the product of the ages of the brothers will be ten more than eleven times the age of the father. What is the current age of the man's youngest son?

Answer 1

f = o + 20
o = y + 2
(o+3)(y+3) = 11f + 10

y = ?

Answer 2

f=0 or O?

Answer 3

are these all one equation or different equations? I am trying to figure it out by substitute lol not working

Answer 4

Wait...

Answer 5

okay

Answer 6

Actually, it is not solvable.

Answer 7

why?

Answer 8

it's the same kind of problem I was running into when trying to substitute

Answer 9

Well, if it's solveable, you'll have to use the quadratic formula to solve it

Answer 10

with all your equal signs I can't tell if it's continous or just different equations not broken up

Answer 11

y^2 - 6y -246 = 0

Answer 12

that looks better

Answer 13

There you go. Plug that into the quad form

Answer 14

Warning: The values will not be "even"

Answer 15

it can be both 3+ squareroot of 1020/2 or 3-squareroot of 1020-2

Answer 16

If that is correct, you will need to round it

Answer 17

to decimal

Answer 18

ugh

Answer 19

lol

Answer 20

Thanks

Answer 21

What did you get?

Answer 22

about 15.97