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A father said to his child, "I was as old as you are at the time of your birth". If the father's age is 48 years now, the child's age six years back was:

Solution

Correct Option: 4

Let the child's current age be xx. Father's age when child was born was xx, so now father is x+x=2x=48x + x = 2x = 48, giving x=24x = 24. Six years back, child's age was 246=1824 - 6 = 18 years.

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