Problema Solution

A woman is 5 times as old as her youngest daughter. how old is each now if the sum of their ages is 50?

Answer provided by our tutors

let the age of woman yougest daughter is x then woman age is 5x

now sum of age is 50

x+5x=50

=> 6x=50

=> x= 50/6= 25/3=8.33

thus daughter age is 8.33 and woman age is 41.67