Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #15854: Age word problems - Age word problems
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-03-09 22:01:57+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, hard, win7

Reporter: kevinjtobin@gmail.com

I can NOT get past this problem. I have absolutely no idea where 5/2 is coming from. I've watched the videos multiple times, I can do all the other problems, but this one is preventing me from getting proficiency in this. No one understands how we go from 7/2 to 5/2!! Please help!

[age_word_problems.html?seed=151&problem=solve-older-3](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/age_word_problems.html?seed=151&problem=solve-older-3&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/age_word_problems.html?seed=151&problem=solve-older-3&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2241%5C%22%22%2C396%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C5%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C8%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C10%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C22%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5C%2225%5C%22%22%2C139%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%5D)

["41","25"]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.78 Safari/535.11

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