Be the First to Solve this Math Test and Win an 100% upvote worth $0.4 Instantly #13

steemitcentral (61)in #maths • 6 years ago (edited)

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In January of the year 2000, I was one more than eleven times as old as my son William. In January of 2009, I was seven more than three times as old as him. How old was my son in January of 2000?

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6 years ago in #maths by steemitcentral (61)

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florino (56) 6 years ago (edited)

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Cos your son was 3 years old in January of 2000

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juancmz (43) 6 years ago

Ok, we can consider William's age as an , and the age of the father as , then taking into account the data of the problem, we expreed it mathematically as:

It is understood then that we have an equation system with two unknowns, of which we want to know the value of X, so to solve it we will use the Crámer rule for determinant (Spanish version). We proceed to rewrite the system and identify the coefficients: