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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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Another Simple one, I hope

| Comment 15 of 18 |

Pulling out the prime factors, you come up with 3x3x3x3x7 = 567. So the twins are each 3 x 3 = 9 and the other is 7.

Posted by Lawrence on 2003-08-24 06:46:15

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