{"id":71,"date":"2016-05-20T19:34:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-05-20T19:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:04:26","slug":"age-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Age Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can you tell me about the ages of the new caretakers, the Jones family?&#8221; asked the math student Lanoo of his teacher Orion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, I will be happy to. Perhaps you won&#8217;t be so pleased,&#8221; smiled Orion, &#8220;when smoke starts coming out of your ears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difference between the ages of John and Mary is twice that of Cuthbert.<\/p>\n<p>One of the former is ten times as old as Cuthbert. Reading backwards, the age of John is the same as that of Mary.<\/p>\n<p>What are their ages?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-71\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-71\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-71\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can you tell me about the ages of the new caretakers, the Jones family?&#8221; asked the math student Lanoo of his teacher Orion. &#8220;Yes, I will be happy to. Perhaps you won&#8217;t be so pleased,&#8221; smiled Orion, &#8220;when smoke starts coming out of your ears.&#8221; &#8220;The difference between the ages of John and Mary is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-71\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-71\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-71\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=71&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zDaf-19","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=281","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":0},"title":"King Arthur's Age Puzzle","date":"December 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Once upon a time, long ago in an enchanted land, a young deer poacher was hauled before King Arthur by Cuthbert of Sodshire, the local sheriff, who threw down the slain deer on the stone slab floor before King Arthur\u2019s feet. \u201cLook Sire, as you can see, this strapping young\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Algebra&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/www.blogs.euni.org\/?p=58","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":1},"title":"The Mathematician's Kids","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A mathematician named Albert meets a colleague and says: \"Nice to see you again John. 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