blazingblender:
Matter long ooh
But I think the first answer is 10 yrs

Abusadiq01:



I also thought it was 10, bt let's assume u are bako, if someone say u are twice as old as Ur were five years ago, does that means u are 10 years old? No! U can be 18 years now, bt five years ago, u were 18-5=13years old

Abusadiq01:
Good Evening Nairalanders, So this evening I came back from work very tired, my cousin Came into my room and said, "Broda, Please help me do my Math assignment". To my surprise, it was word problem in mathematics. As a 300L B.Pharm student, I excitedly collected it and sharply wanted to do it at that spot, bt wat I thought it was wasn't it. So I told her to leave it on d table wen am done I will check it again...

Pls help me show ur working, dat girl go request for explanation... Thanks

Tolexander:
Bako’s age = 10years

Bako’s mum was 30years when Bako was 5years

Bako will be 25 years when his mother is 50years

Bako’s mother was 25years when she gave birth to Bako

Their age difference is 25

chatinent:
Simple maths you cannot do but you know all the suya joints in Gwagwalada.

brightest5050:
B. Pharm the question threw you off balance. These kid the kind of maths question they are given can take anyone unexpected

BRIGHT180:
Let Bako current age = x
five years ago Bako is x-5

Let Mother current age = y= 35yrs
Five years ago mom's age was 6times son's age
y-5 =6(x-5)
35-5= 6x-30
6x= 60
x=10
I) x = Bako current age= 10
From their current ages mom will ALWAYS be 25 years older than Bako, therefore b = a +25, a and b now variables a for bako age , b for mom's age.

ii) Mom's age for Bako at 5 ,a =5, b=?
b= 5+25 =30

iii) Bako age for mom at 50, b=50, a=?
50 =a +25
a= 50-25 = 25

iv) Mom's age for Bako at birth, a=0 b=?
b = 0+25 = 25

v) age difference= b-a = 25

Just in case your younger one ask for explanation

chatinent:
Simple maths you cannot do but you know all the suya joints in Gwagwalada.

Dtruthspeaker:
The lies and deceits planted in education so that people become stupid and lose focus on what they are supposed to be doing.

First what is my business with Bako and his mother's age? I don't have any business with them.

Of what use and relevance and profit is this? Even American embassy do not calculate this to know your age.

The simple thing is to ask, what is your age? And what is your mother's age. And birth certificates and school certificates and other things will take of all this none sense..

No! Not none sense but a wicked deception meant to make you follow the distraction in sleight of hand.

As every grown up has seen, no one has ever used this shit, not even detectives.

And maths had plenty of these and they are meant to keep us busy doing a nullity, which is why people have come to say education is a scam.

I say the education they give is preparing us to be scammed. It is a case of using the Truth as the vehicle for delivering lies.

Abusadiq01:


Oga stop all wailing and complaining, just say u no fit solve amm

chatinent:
Simple maths you cannot do but you know all the suya joints in Gwagwalada.

ahnie:

Be calming down....lolz zero chills.

Dtruthspeaker:


You dey vex? Good! You don see am.

As God helped me, I do not engage in any thing that does not make good sense and I remember thinking about this kind of questions even years after I left secondary school and yet I never saw its good sense nor anyone use it.

So, i tell my children not to bother themselves when they see this kind of rubbish question.

As good as education is, it is also the same vehicle used to deceive and weaken people for the full deception which is to come in the future, SINCE THEY HAVE TAUGHT PEOPLE TO LOSE THEIR NATURAL FOCUS ON THINGS THEY WOULD NORMALLY AND NATURALLY HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT WOULD HAVE HELPED THEM TO ACQUIRE THE GOOD THINGS THEY PLAN ON GETTING THROUGH FOCUS AND GOOD THINKING!

Abusadiq01:


I understand, u no fit solve am

Dtruthspeaker:
The lies and deceits planted in education so that people become stupid and lose focus on what they are supposed to be doing.

First what is my business with Bako and his mother's age? I don't have any business with them.

Of what use and relevance and profit is this? Even American embassy do not calculate this to know your age.

The simple thing is to ask, what is your age? And what is your mother's age. And birth certificates and school certificates and other things will take of all this none sense..

No! Not none sense but a wicked deception meant to make you follow the distraction in sleight of hand.

As every grown up has seen, no one has ever used this shit, not even detectives.

And maths had plenty of these and they are meant to keep us busy doing a nullity, which is why people have come to say education is a scam.

I say the education they give is preparing us to be scammed. It is a case of using the Truth as the vehicle for delivering lies.

BRIGHT180:
Let Bako current age = x
five years ago Bako is x-5

Let Mother current age = y= 35yrs
Five years ago mom's age was 6times son's age
y-5 =6(x-5)
35-5= 6x-30
6x= 60
x=10
I) x = Bako current age= 10
From their current ages mom will ALWAYS be 25 years older than Bako, therefore b = a +25, a and b now variables a for bako age , b for mom's age.

ii) Mom's age for Bako at 5 ,a =5, b=?
b= 5+25 =30

iii) Bako age for mom at 50, b=50, a=?
50 =a +25
a= 50-25 = 25

iv) Mom's age for Bako at birth, a=0 b=?
b = 0+25 = 25

v) age difference= b-a = 25

Just in case your younger one ask for explanation