Question

Sleepy is eight years younger than scoopy. Doc is 5 times as old as scoopy. The sum of their age is 55. How old are each of them? This is the exact problem from worksheet.

Answer 1

Answer:

The age of Sleepy is 1 .

Then the age of Scoopy is 9.

The age of Doc would be 45.

Step-by-step explanation:

We have to find the ages of all the three people based on the given equations.

Let the age of Sleepy be  x. Since Scoopy is 8 years older than Sleepy, the age of Scoopy would be (x+8).

Also Doc is 5 times as old as Scoopy so his age is 5(x+8).

Now the sum of the ages of all three is 55.

Writing equation for this,

x + x + 8 + 5(x+8) = 55

7x + 48 = 55

7x = 7

x = 1

So the age of Sleepy is 1 .Then the age of Scoopy is 9.

The age of Doc would be 45.