Question

Allen is 36 years old. Allen is twice as old as Carlos was when he was as old as Carlos is now, How old was Carlos a YEAR AGO?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Let's start by using "C" to represent Carlos's current age.

We know that Allen is 36 years old, so we can write A = 36

We also know that there was a time when Allen was as old as Carlos is now, and at that time, Carlos was C - x years old, where "x" is the number of years ago this was. So we can write A = 2(C - x)

We want to find out how old Carlos was one year ago, so we can set x = 1 and solve for C:

36 = 2(C - 1)

36 = 2C - 2

38 = 2C

C = 19

So Carlos is currently 19 years old. To find out how old he was one year ago, we subtract 1:

19 - 1 = 18

Therefore, Carlos was 18 years old one year ago.

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