What is her age?

[brian75]

Mrs. Mike picked up a mixture of candies and gummy bears. Each candy pack had 8 candies in them and each gummy bear pack had 5 gummy bears in them. She counted the total number of candies and gummy bears and found that there were 39 of them. "Oh exactly my age!" she exclaimed and "The total number of packs of gummy bears and candies, I got is exactly my daughters age" she thought. So what is her daughter's age?


Brian

[subramani]

Interesting one. I shall pose the questions to my students and get the response. I do not want to write the answer immediately. Let the students think and respond.

-subramani

[sunder]

i think the right answer is 6.

has anyone else solved this? please acknowledge

[karanrocks]

Yes, I also got the answer 6