Mistake in the logic puzzle "Age"

Bug #622197 reported by Pavel Mikhalev
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gbrainy (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gbrainy

Affected version: 1.50

"John's age is nowadays 2 times his son's age. 18 years ago, John was 5 times older than his son. How old is John's son nowadays?"

Gbrainy says that correct answer is 40 (on the attached screenshot), but it isn't true. If nowadays John's son is 40, then John is 80 (2x). 18 years ago John's son was 22 and John was 62 (2.8x, which is incorrect statement).

Puzzle can be solved, using simple equation. Let son's age nowadays will be x, than John's age will be 2*x. 18 years ago: 2*x-18=5*(x-18). From this x=24. Nowadays, John's son is 24 and John himself is 48 (2x), 18 years ago John's son was 6 and John was 30 (5x).

Correct answer must be 24, not 40.

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Pavel Mikhalev (chame) wrote :
Pavel Mikhalev (chame)
description: updated
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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report and helping improve Ubuntu.

This problem is already known upstream and will be fixed with the next gbrainy release.

http://groups.google.com/group/gbrainy/browse_thread/thread/7f1051371c930cd7?hl=en

Changed in gbrainy (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Pavel Mikhalev (chame) wrote :

Actually, equation and problem there is different, but similar. I hope they are coming from one source and will be fixed soon.

Changed in gbrainy (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote :

This should be fixed now. Please re-open this bug if that isn't the case.

Changed in gbrainy (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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