Here\u2019s a simple-looking age puzzle that can easily catch you off guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was 6 years old<\/strong>, my sister was half my age<\/strong>. That means she was 3 years old<\/strong> at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, I am 70 years old<\/strong>. The important part is that the age difference between us has never changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was 6 and she was 3, the difference was 3 years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, if I am now 70, my sister must be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 70 \u2212 3 = 67<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Answer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My sister is 67 years old<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trick is that she is not still half my age today. She was half my age when I was 6<\/strong>. Since then, we have both grown older by the same number of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s a simple-looking age puzzle that can easily catch you off guard. When I was 6 years old, my sister was half my age. That […]<\/a> CONTINUE READING >>><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxtonhegmann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}