2007 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 10
Problem
The Dunbar family consists of a mother, a father, and some children. The average age of the members of the family is , the father is
years old, and the average age of the mother and children is
. How many children are in the family?
Solution 1
Let be the number of children. Then the total ages of the family is
, and the total number of people in the family is
. So
Solution 2
Let x be number of children+the mom. The father, who is 48, plus the number of kids and mom divided by the number of kids and mom plus 1 (for the dad)=20. This is because the average age of the entire family is 20.
Basically, this looks like 48+16x/x+1=20
7 people - 1 mom = 6 children.
E is the answer
Solution 3
Let be the Mom's age.
Let the number of children be and their average be
. Their age totaled up is simply
.
We have the following two equations:
, where
is the family's total age and
(Mom + Dad + Children).
The next equation is $\frac{m+xy}{1+x)=16$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg), where is the total ages of the Mom and the children, and
is the number of people.
==>
.
We know the value for , so we substitute the value back in the first equation.
==>
.
.
Earlier, we set to be the number of children. Therefore, there are
children.
See also
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