Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/43 - Mike's Age
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $43$
- Mike's Age
- Pat O'Connor is $1 \tfrac 1 3$ times as old as when he built the pigsty.
- Little Mike, who was $40$ months old when Pat built the sty, is now two years more than half as old as Pat's wife, Biddy, was when Pat built the sty,
- so that when Little Mike is as old as Pat was when he built the sty,
- their three ages combined will amount to just one hundred years.
- How old is Little Mike?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $43$. -- Mike's Age
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age Puzzles: $38$. Mike's Age