Question

Jason's age is 1/2 the differnce of his mothers age and 6. Jason is 16 how old is Jason's Mother?

Answer 1

38 years old

Explanation:

Let his mom's age be x.

For this problem, you kinda want to work backward. So we would start with Jason being 16. So our equation would have 16 on one side.

16 = ...

Then we see his age is 1/2 of the difference of his mom's age and 6.

So 16 = 1/2(x-6)

Now we solve!

16 = 1/2(x-6)

32 = x-6

x = 38 years old