Question: "Pat O'Connor," said Colonel Crackham, "is now just one and one-third times as old as he was when he built the pig sty under his drawing-room window. Little Mike, who was forty months old when Pat built the sty, is now two years more than half as old as Pat's wife, Biddy, was when Pat
built the sty, so that when little Mike is as old as Pat was when he built the sty, their three ages combined will amount to just one hundred years. How old is little Mike?"
Answer: Mike's present age is 101~1 years, Pat's is 291~1, and Biddy's is 242~1 years. When the sty was built (79121 years ago), Mike was 3~1, Pat was 22~1, and Biddy was 171\6 I. In 1 P \61 years Mike will be 22~ 1 (as old as Pat was when he built the sty), Pat will be 41~1, and Biddy will be 361%1, making 100 years together.
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