Mind Exercise: Age Riddle

Posted by Jerry Lopper Dec 29, 2006

Sharpen your mind and exercise your brain with this number series mind puzzle. Mind and mental exercises such as this mind teaser help to keep your brain young. Enter your answers in the Mind Exercise Answer discussion.

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Exercise:

Remember your high school algebra? This will give you the chance to brush up on it. Or you can ask one of your kids to solve it for you.

Add you to me, divide by three,

The square of you, you'll surely see,

But me to you is eight to one,

One day you'll work it out my son.

Source: The Complete Book of Fun Maths, Philip Carter & Ken Russell

Solution here