{"id":163416,"date":"2024-03-04T15:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=163416"},"modified":"2024-03-04T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T09:35:18","slug":"after-4-years-ratio-of-the-ages-of-a-to-c-is-65-and-the-age-of-b-before-5-years-is-equal-to-the-present-age-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/after-4-years-ratio-of-the-ages-of-a-to-c-is-65-and-the-age-of-b-before-5-years-is-equal-to-the-present-age-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"After 4 years, ratio of the ages of A to C is 6:5 and the age of B before 5 years is equal to the present age of A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After 4 years, ratio of the ages of A to C is 6:5 and the age of B before 5 years is equal to the present age of A. The average age of B after 3 years and the present age of C is 22 years. Find the present age of C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

a)            24 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

b)            25 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c)            16 years<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

d)            20 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e)            None of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sol:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Present age of A = 6x \u2013 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Present age of C = 5x \u2013 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Present age of B = 6x \u2013 4 + 5 = 6x + 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

((6x + 1 + 3) + 5x \u2013 4)\/2 = 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11x\/2 = 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n

x = 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Present age of C = 5 * 4 \u2013 4 = 16 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 4 years, ratio of the ages of A to C is 6:5 and the age of B before 5 years is equal to the present age of A. The average age of B after 3 years and the present age of C is 22 years. Find the present age of C. a)            24 years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":163417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5139],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-163416","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\/163416","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\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163418,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163416\/revisions\/163418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163416"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=163416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}