KCC's Quizzes AQQ231 about Birthdays and Cake Candles

Mary celebrates her birthday every year from the very first year.

The number of candles on her cake used reflects her age : 1 at age of 1, 2 at age of 2, 3 at age of 3 etc…

Up to now, she has blow out a total of 946 candles.

Questions:

1. How old is Mary today?
2. In an other family, there are 2 sisters, Ann and Helen. Helen is 5 years younger than Ann. They both follows the same scenario for the candles as Mary. The cumulated candled used by the 2 sisters is 1687. How old are Ann and Helen?

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Kuo-Chang