If A Mom Has Her First Child When She Was 18 Then Her Second When She Was 20 And Her Third When She's 29 And The Children Are 20, 17 And 15 How Old Is She?

[Anonymoustrashh2]

if a mom has her first child when she was 18 then her second when she was 20 and her third when she's 29 and the children are 20, 17 and 15 how old is she?

[Tilly2]

The ages don't make sense.

[mallyh]

i'd say 39years old if she adopted the younger 2

[bobbinwales]

The third one must of been typed wrong.

[Paigntonian]

Good grief.

[Ken4155]

If she gave birth to the 20 year old when she was 18, that makes her 38.

[bobbinwales]

if a mom has her first child when she was 18 and the first child is 20 then the youngest she could be in 18yrs+1 day plus 20 years +1 day= 38yrs+2days so 38.
The oldest is 18 +364days plus 20 years +364 days= 39yrs+363 days I think' so 39

Now repeat for second child.

[Hazlinny]

Joined today - think he/she is having you on!

[bobbinwales]

if a mom has her second when she was 20 and the second is 17 a how old is she?
If youngest is 20 yrs exactly + 17 years exact = 37 exactly, so 37.
Oldest is 20 yrs+364 days plus17 yrs+ 364 days= 39yrs less 2 days so 38.

[bobbinwales]

so we ruled out 39

[jno]

having to raise two children can age a woman immensely, this might explain why she was nine years older when she had a child who was two years younger than the middle sibling.

[bobbinwales]

and we rule out 37. So 38.
This don't take account of leap years, cant think that through in this heat.

[maggiebee]

If she had her first child when she was 18 and that child is now 20, surely she is 38.

[Prudie]

She's either not mother to them all or they are not the 3 children she had at those ages.
For example if she had a child at 29 who is now 15 then mother must be around 44. That doesn't fit with the others at all.

[Ken4155]

Of course she is, Maggie. And no amount of leap years would alter that fact.

[bobbinwales]

//If she had her first child when she was 18 and that child is now 20, surely she is 38.//
Not nesscarilly maggiebee if you look at the possibilities- it dont say exactly 28 or 20

[Prudie]

I have just noticed it's anonymous trash :-)

[jno]

quite so, Prudie (and Tilly). Maybe the third was born under the Mayan Long Count calendar.

[Tilly2]

I think Mallyh has it, with the adoption theory.

[Prudie]

OK bobb try and make the third one work...

[bobbinwales]

no need prudie... I already said what otehrs have said, its either a typo (or poster is having a laugh)