No, unfortunately this isn’t a post about your favorite old-school Blink-182 song, but it's almost as exciting: We’re going to tackle age-related word problems. These questions present you with some clues about how old one or more people are, and then ask you to figure out someone’s exact age or who’s oldest or something like that. Let’s take a look at a couple of examples:

Johnny is currently 4 times as old as his brother, Sam. In two years, Johnny will only be 3 times as old as Sam. How old was Johnny a year ago?