43.--MRS. TIMPKINS'S AGE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Edwin: "Do you know, when the Timpkinses married eighteen years ago Timpkins was three times as old as his wife, and to-day he is just twice as old as she?"

Angelina: "Then how old was Mrs. Timpkins on the wedding day?"

Can you answer Angelina's question?

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