How old is the movie star

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013.

  1. Ok so i have a riddle it took me three hrs to find out the answer lets see if anyone else can get it and faster then i did lmao:

    A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the following riddle to a gossip columnist: "Seven years ago, I was eleven times as old as my daughte, Now i am four times as old as she is." How old is the movie star

    No cheating
     
    #1 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
  2. ? 44?
     
    #2 -Ahli-LovesMike, Oct 11, 2013
  3.  if he is 44, his daughter is 11 (11x4).. 7 years ago, she'd have been 4 (4x11) 
     
    #3 -Ahli-LovesMike, Oct 11, 2013
  4. Close but no
     
    #4 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
  5.  Oh bugger.. I realised my mistake..  Wait.. 
     
    #5 -Ahli-LovesMike, Oct 11, 2013
  6. 40
     
    #6 -MYST-, Oct 11, 2013
  7. Your a genius bro howd you get it so fast
     
    #7 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
  8. Let x rep his age
    Let y rep daughters age

    x=4y

    x-7=11(y-7)
    x-7=11y-77

    Sub
    4y-7=11y-77
    7y=70
    y=10

    If his daughter is 10 he must be 40
     
    #8 _____SmeIIy----_--__, Oct 11, 2013
  9. Thats so simple. Its a matematic for 5th grade.
     
    #9 miki9, Oct 11, 2013
  10. let x=daughters age 7 yrs ago
    x+7=curremy daughters age
    11x+7=4(x+7)
    11x+7=4x+28
    7x=21
    x=3
    let daughters current age 3+7=10
    4(10)=40
     
    #10 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
  11. thats how i got it and unless you know a fifth grader in pre calculus or a guessing genius your ignorant to believe so
     
    #11 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
  12. currently* and thats how i got my answer also unless you know a fifth grader whose a guessing genius or taking pre calc your ignorant to believe that
     
    #12 AsshatJoker_, Oct 11, 2013
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