How old?
Cressida didn’t like to tell her age, so when she was asked, her mother answered for her. Her mother said, “I’m just seven times as old as she is now. In twenty years, she’ll be just half the age that I will be then.”
How old is clever little Cressida?
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Cressida is four years old
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