Problem: A teen age boy wrote his own age after his father's. From this new four place number he subtracted the absolute value of the difference of their ages to get . The sum of their ages was
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Let b and f denote the boy's and father's age respectively. Then . Also . Equating the remainders in the division of both members of this equation by , (casting out nines), . Now and .