My mother's age is three times my age. The sum of our ages is 40. How old am I? How old is my mom? (Hint: Let x be your age)

• let my age be x
  mom's age=40-x
  also
  3x=40-x
  x=10,so i am 10 yrs old n mother is 30yrs old.
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