Homework Help: math

Posted by mike on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 6:24pm.

Aunt Alice gave each of her three nieces a number of silver dollars equal to their ages.The youngest felt that this was unfair. They agreed to redistribute the money. The youngest would split half her silver dollars evenly with the other sisters. The middle sister would would then give each of the others 4 silver dollars. Finally the oldest was to split half of her dollars equally between the two younger sisters. After exchanging the money each girl had 16 silver dollars. How old were the sisters? (Hint: Start with each sister having 16 silver dollars and work backwards.)

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