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Six years ago Rahul's age was two times the square of Gaurav's age. Four years hence, Gaurav's age will be one fourths of Rahul's age. Find their present ages.

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Six years ago Rahul's age was two times the square of Gaurav's age. Four years hence, Gaurav's age will be one fourths of Rahul's age. Find their present ages.
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Solution 1

Let's denote Rahul's present age as R and Gaurav's present age as G.

According to the problem, we have two equations:

  1. R - 6 = 2*(G - 6)^2
  2. G + 4 = 1/4 * (R + 4)

We can solve these two equations to find the values of R and G.

Let's start with the first equation:

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