the jones family has three children. the sum of their ages is 11. the product of their ages is 24. how old are the children?
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factors of 24: 1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24

since the sum is 11, possibilities are

8,3,1

6,4,1 or 6,2,2

4,2,3

so 6 and 4 and 1
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