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 $20$ , the father is $48$ years old, and the average age of the mother and children is $16$ . How many children are in the family?

$\text{(A)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 3 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 5 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 6$

Solution

Let $n$ be the number of children. Then the total ages of the family is $48 + 16(n+1)$ , and the total number of people in the family is $n+2$ . So

$20 = \frac{48 + 16(n+1)}{n+2} \Longrightarrow 20n + 40 = 16n + 64 \Longrightarrow n = 6\ \mathrm{(E)}.$

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