The ratio of Sam's age to Hank's age is 5 to 3. If the sum of their ages is 24, how old is Hank?

5:3 :Sum is: 8
10:6 :Sum is: 16
15:9 :Sum is: 24
The ration is of Sam to Hank, so Sam would be the first number, and Hank would be the second number.
Hank is 9 years old.

Answered by xXxGirxXx | 2024-06-10

Hank is 9 years old. Explanation - What I did is I made a chart, and the categories were Sam and Hank. Then all I did was add 5 to Sam's age and added 3 to Hank's age. I repeated this until the sum of the ages equaled 24.

Answered by Kireeth | 2024-06-10

Hank is 9 years old. We derived this by using the age ratio of 5 to 3 and the sum of their ages, which is 24. We found that Hank's age corresponds to 3 times a common factor, which equals 9.
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Answered by Anonymous | 2024-12-26