04 Try it yourself Interactive

Two masked sentences, unmasked line by line

Both sentences are masked here, which is how the harder Model 2 questions are printed. The solver strips each mask to a ratio, then solves the plain problem underneath. All four cases below describe Vijay at 15 and his father at 25 — eight different masks, one pair of ages.

A is 3/5 of B; in 5 years A will be 2/3 of B
Vijay 15 · father 25 · ratio 3 : 5
Try changing only the first control between the first two cases: “3/5 of” and “60% of” are the same sentence, so the ages do not move. Then pick two masks that hide the same ratio and read why the solver refuses.
Press Next to work through it one step at a time.
First mask as a ratio
Second mask as a ratio
Present ages
Age gap
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