Jack asked Fred \u201cHow old are your family members?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTen years ago my father was twice my age and my mother\u2019s age was a perfect number,\u201d said Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat helps with your mother\u2019s age, but I need more information about your father,\u201d said Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo problem. The square of my father\u2019s age is equal to the year he was born,\u201d replied Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cOk, got it,\u201d said Jack. \u201cWhat about your brother and sister?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTen years ago my sister Lara was the same age as my brother Nick is now. In two years my father will be half the age his father was when he died,\u201d said Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery interesting,\u201d said Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy great grandfather told my father he would be reborn in a year equal to one quarter of a perfect number, which is when Nick\u2019s turtle \u2013 that my great grandfather gave to my father newly hatched ten years before he died \u2013 will probably die,\u201d said Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow nice, any more info?\u201d said Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sister Lara\u2019s age is a divisor of the cross sum of the turtle\u2019s present age,\u201d said Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd what about your grandfather\u2019s age?\u201d asked Jack.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen my father was born my grandfather was as old as half the sum of my mother\u2019s age and that of my father\u2019s ten years ago,\u201d said Fred.<\/p>\n
\u201cGee thanks, I\u2019ll go and think about it,\u201d said Jack and walked off.<\/p>\n
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