Problems on Ages

1. The ratio between the present ages of Indira and Lizzy is 3 : 8, respectively. After 8
yr, Indira's age will be 20 yr. What was Lizzy's age 5 yr ago?
a. 37 years
b. 27 years
c. 28 years
d. 38 years

2. At present, Kavita is twice Sarita's age. 8 yr hence, the respective ratio between
Kavita's and Sarita's ages will be 22 : 13. What is Kavita 's present age ?
a. 26 years
b. 18 years
c. 42 years
d. 36 years

3. 7 yr ago, the ages of A and B were in the ratio 4 : 5 and 7 yr hence, they will be in the
ratio 5 : 6. The present age of B is ?
a. 56 years
b. 63 years
c. 70 years
d. 77 years

4. The present ages of two persons are 36 and 50 yr, respectively. If after n yr the ratio
of their ages will be 3 : 4, then the value of n is ?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

5. The ratio between the present ages of A and B is 4 : 5. If the ratio between their ages
4 yr hence become 14 : 17, Then what is B's age at present ?
a. 30 years
b. 28 years
c. 34 years
d. Data inadequate

6. 10 yr before, the ratio of ages of A and B was 13 : 17. After 17 yr from now, the ratio
of their ages will be 10 : 11. The present age of B is
a. 23 years
b. 40 years
c. 27 years
d. 44 years

7. A mother is 25 years older than her daughter. Five years ago, the age of the mother
was 6 time the age of the daughter. What is the present age of mother?
a. 25 years
 b. 29 years
c. 32 years
d. 35 years

8. The present ages of Sunil and Anil are 40 and 60 years respectively. How many years
ago was the ratio of their ages 3: 5?
a. 5 years
b. 10 years
c. 12 years
d. 15 years

9. The present ages of Reena and Usha are 24 and 36 yr. respectively. What was the
ratio between the ages of Usha and Reena respectively 8 yr ago?
a. 7 : 4
b. 4 : 7
c. 11 : 8
d. 8 : 11

10. The average age of 8 children of a family is 12 yr. If the age of 7 children are 12, 8,
14, 11, 9, 13 and 15 yr. then the age of 8th child will be ?
a. 12 years
b. 14 years
c. 13 years
d. 15 years

11. The ratio of father's age to the son's age is 4 : 1. The product of their ages is 196. the
ratio of their ages after 5 years will be?
a. 3 : 1
b. 10 : 3
c. 11 : 4
d. 7 : 8

12. 20 years ago my age was 1/3 of what it is now. What is my present age ?
a. 30 years
b. 25 years
c. 35 years
d. 40 years

13. After 4 years, the ratio of the ages of A and B is 3:2 and the C’s age 5 years ago is 8
years less than the present age of B. Average of the ages of A, B and C together is 32
years 4 months. Find the present age of A?
a. 40 years
b. 44 years
c. 48 years
d. 52 years
14. Present age of A is 6 times the age of B 2 years ago. 4 years hence, A’s age will be 4
times the age of B at that time. What will be the age of B after 6 years?
a. 19 years
b. 11 years
c. 18 years
d. 17 years

15. The present ages of Arul and Arun is 7: 5 and after four years the ratio becomes 15:
11. What is the difference between the ages of Arul and Arun 5 years ago?
a. 12 years
b. 16 years
c. 20 years
d. 24 years

16. Ratio of the ages of A, B and C is 4: 5: 6 and the ratio of the ages of D and E is 3: 2. If
the sum of the ages of C and D is 60 years and the ratio of the ages of B to E is 15: 8,
then what is the average ages of A, B, C, D and E?
a. 24 years
b. 26 years
c. 28 years
d. 30 years

17. Ratio of present ages of A and B is 4: 5. Sum of the present age of D and A is 41. C is
2 years younger than B. Average of the present age of B, C and D is 21 years. Find
the difference of D and C’s age.
a. 3
b. 5
c. 7
d. 9

18. The ratio of present ages of Ganesh and Prabha is 3: 2. Present age of Prabha is equal
to the age of Ganesh 8 years ago. Find the sum of the ages of Ganesh and Prabha after
5 years?
a. 38 years
b. 42 years
c. 46 years
d. 50 years

19. The ratio of present ages of A and B is 5: 7. After 5 years, the ratio of ages of A and B
will be 3: 4. Find the difference between their ages
a. 10 years
b. 12 years
c. 14 years
d. 8 years
20. Ratio of present age of Satish and Raju is 7: 6. Sum of the present age of Sweta and
Satish is 54. Anu is 4 years younger than Raju. Average of present ages of Raju, Anu
and Sweta is 23 1/3 years. Find the difference of Sweta and Anu’s age.
a. 2
b. 4
c. 6
d. 8
21. Ten years ago, the average of the ages of David, Hari and Kani is 34 years and after 6
years, the average ages of Hari and Kani is 53 years. Find the present age of David.
a. 30 years
b. 34 years
c. 38 years
d. 42 years

22. Father is four times the age of his daughter. If after 5 years, he would be threee times
of daughter’s age, then further after 5 years, how many times he would be of his
daughter’s age?
a. 1.5 times
b. 2 times
c. 2.5 times
d. 3 times

23. What is Aman's present age, if after 20 years his age will be 10 times his age 10 years
back?
a. 6.2 years
b. 7.7 years
c. 13.3 years
d. 10 years

24. Nisha is 15 years elder to Romi. If 5 years ago, Nisha was 3 times as old as Romi,
then find Nisha’s present age.
a. 32.5 years
b. 27.5 years
c. 25 years
d. 24.9 years

25. One year ago, the ratio of Honey and Piyush ages was 2: 3 respectively. After five
years from now, this ratio becomes 4: 5. How old is Piyush now?
a. 5 years
b. 25 years
c. 10 years
d. 15 years

26. Saransh is 50 years old and Nazma is 40 years old. How long ago was the ratio of
their ages 3:2?
a. 20 years
 b. 30 years
c. 40 years
d. 25 years

27. The ratio of the present ages of Pranav and Qureshi is 4:5. Five years ago, the ratio of
their ages was 7:9. Find their present ages? (In years)
a. 40, 50
b. 18, 25
c. 40, 60
d. 20, 25
28. A man said to his son, "I was one-third of your present age when you were born". If
the present age of the man is 48 years, find the present age of the son.
a. 25.7 years
b. 28 years
c. 29.3 years
d. 36 years

29. Dinesh is younger to Roshan by 9 years. If their ages are in the respective ratio of 4:5,
how old is Dinesh?
a. 36 years
b. 23 years
c. 29 years
d. Cannot be determined

30. The ratio of Sara’s age 4 years ago and Vaishali’s age after 4 years is 1: 1. Presently,
the ratio of their ages is 5: 3. Find the ratio between Sara’s age 4 years hence and
Vaishali’s age 4 years ago.
a. 1 : 3
b. 3 : 1
c. 4 : 3
d. 3 : 4

31. A’s age after 15 years would be equal to 5 times his age 5 years ago. Find his age 3
years hence.
a. 15 years
b. 13 years
c. 14 years
d. 12.5 years

32. The product of the ages of A and B is 240. If twice the age of B is more than A’s age
by 4 years, what was B’s age 2 years ago?
a. 15 years
b. 13 years
c. 17 years
d. 10 years
33. A father is currently three times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was four times as
old as his son. Find the current ages of the father and the son?
a. 15, 45
b. 16, 48
c. 12, 36
d. None of these

34. The age of a man is twice the sum of the ages of his two sons. Five years ago, his age
was four times the sum of their ages at that time. Find the man’s present age if the
sum of the sons’ ages is currently 20 years.
a. 42 years
b. 45 years
c. 40 years
d. 44 years

35. Father is aged three times more than his son Ronit. After 8 years, he would be two
and a half times of Ronit's age. After further 8 years, how many times would he be of
Ronit's age?
a. 2 times
b. 2 ½ times
c. 2 ¾ times
d. 3 times

36. The sum of ages of 5 children born at the intervals of 3 years each is 50 years. What is
the age of the youngest child?
a. 4 years
b. 8 years
c. 10 years
d. None of these

37. A father said to his son, "I was as old as you are at the present at the time of your
birth". If the father's age is 38 years now, the son's age five years back was:
a. 14 years
b. 19 years
c. 33 years
d. 38 years

38. Arun is 2 years older than Bharat who is twice as old as Charat. If the total of the ages
of Arun, Bharat and Charat be 27, then how old is Bharat?
a. 10 years
b. 12 years
c. 15 years
d. 13 years
39. The ratio of the ages of A and B is 6 : 5 and the age of C is 5 years less than twice the
age of B. The difference between the ages of C and A is 11 years, what is the age of
A?
a. 24 years
b. 30 years
c. 36 years
d. 42 years

40. Lavanya got married 10 years ago. Now her age is 1 1/5 times her age at the time of
marriage. Her son’s present age is one – tenth of her present age. Find her son’s
present age?
a. 6 years
b. 5 years
c. 12 years
d. 20 years

41. A father’s age is seven times that of his son’s age. Three years from now, the age of
the father will be five times that of his son’s age. After how many years will their
combined age be 62 years?
a. 6 years
b. 3 years
c. 7 years
d. 5 years

42. The ratio of the present ages of a man and his wife is 5 : 8. After 10 years, the ratio of
the man and his wife will be 2 : 3. What will be the ratio of their ages after 20 years?
a. 9 : 10
b. 3 : 5
c. 4 : 5
d. 7 : 10

43. Karan was born 3 years after his parent’s marriage. His father is 6 years older than his
mother but 26 years older than Karan who is 12 years of age as on today. At what age
did his mother get married?
a. 20 years
b. 19 years
c. 17 years
d. 18 years

44. 20 years old Manish is five times as old as his brother Greece. How old will Manish
be when he is three times as old as Greece?
a. 30
b. 32
c. 24
d. 28
45. Amita’s father was 38 years old when she was born, while her mother was 36 years
old when her brother was born who was four years younger than her. What is the
difference between the ages of his parents?
a. 4 years
b. 6 years
c. 8 years
d. 2 years

46. After 15 years, a man will be just four times as old as he was 15 years ago. What is
his present age?
a. 10 years
b. 15 years
c. 20 years
d. 25 years

47. Four years ago ratio of age of Ram and Rahul is 3 : 4. Ratio of their present age is 17 :
22. What is the present age of Sunil if Ram is 5 years older than Sunil?
a. 36 years
b. 29 years
c. 30 years
d. 31 years

48. Keshav and Danish are friends and the age of Keshav 4 years ago is equal to present
age of Danish. After six years the ratio of their age will become 19 : 17. What is the
sum of their ages?
a. 45 years
b. 50 years
c. 60 years
d. 70 years

49. Jitin’s age 3 years from now will be double the average of Jitin’s current age and his
age 8 years ago. What was Jitin’s age 5 years ago?
a. 7 years
b. 8 years
c. 11 years
d. 6 years

50. Present average of age of A and B is 6x – 15. Present average age of A, B and C is 4x
+ 6. If present age of B is 25% less than the present age of C and 20% more than the
present age of A, then find the present age of A?
a. 30 years
b. 32 years
c. 34 years
d. 36 years