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The Aging Brothers (Posted on 2003-08-14)

The product of 3 brothers' ages is 567. Two are twins.

How old is the other one?

See The Solution Submitted by Jayaram S

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| Comment 11 of 18 |

9/7 or 63/3 or ...
These solutions all assume that age can only be measured in integer intervals. Technically there are infinite solutions that satisfy:
y=567/x^2

Posted by Dave Cheetham on 2003-08-17 12:32:09

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