{"id":152655,"date":"2023-07-27T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=152655"},"modified":"2023-07-27T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:10:11","slug":"four-years-ago-a-man-was-6-times-as-old-as-his-son-after-16-years-he-will-be-twice-as-old-as-his-son-what-is-the-present-age-of-man-and-his-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/four-years-ago-a-man-was-6-times-as-old-as-his-son-after-16-years-he-will-be-twice-as-old-as-his-son-what-is-the-present-age-of-man-and-his-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years ago a man was 6 times as old as his son. After 16 years he will be twice as old as his son. What is the present age of man and his son?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Question<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">Four years ago a man was 6 times as old as his son. After 16 years he will be twice as old as his son. What is the present age of man and his son?<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Type<\/td><td colspan=\"2\">multiple_choice<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>34, 9<\/td><td>correct<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>33, 7<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>35, 5<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Option<\/td><td>36, 6<\/td><td>incorrect<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Solution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let age of son 4 years ago be = X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, age of man 4 years ago would be = 6X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per question after 16 years;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2* age of son = age of man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2(X + 4 +16) = (6X + 4 + 16)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2X +40 = 6X + 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2X &#8211; 6X = 20 &#8211; 40<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; 4X = &#8211; 20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X = 5 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2234Present age of son = 5 + 4= 9 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Present age of man = 6X + 4= 6*5 + 4 = 30 +4 = 34 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solution 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apply formula;\u00a0A&#8217;s (man) present age <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-69.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152660\" width=\"117\" height=\"44\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-70.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152661\" width=\"374\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-70.png 639w, https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-70-300x157.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-71.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152662\" width=\"53\" height=\"35\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>= 9 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question Four years ago a man was 6 times as old as his son. After 16 years he will be twice as old as his son. What is the present age of man and his son? Type multiple_choice Option 34, 9 correct Option 33, 7 incorrect Option 35, 5 incorrect Option 36, 6 incorrect Solution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":152663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"class_list":["post-152655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quantitative-aptitude","tag-quantitative-aptitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152664,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152655\/revisions\/152664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}