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The Aging Brothers (Posted on 2003-08-14) Difficulty: 1 of 5
The product of 3 brothers' ages is 567. Two are twins.

How old is the other one?

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Here is my solution | Comment 13 of 18 |
Let the ages of the brothers be A, A, and B.
AxAxB=567
B=567/(AxA)
There AxA, a square number, must divide evenly into 567. But 567=3x3x3x3x7, so clearly 9 is the only square number that divides into 567. Therefore A=3 and B=63
The "other one" is 63 years old. The twins are 3.
(To the objection that this in impossible...NOT SO. The artist Picasso was conceiving children in his 90's. So Picasso could have children with such disparate ages as 63 and 3.)
  Posted by Dan Erickson on 2003-08-23 04:14:05
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