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Problem

Joey and Chloe and their daughter Zoe all have the same birthday. Joey is year older than Chloe, and Zoe is exactly year old today. Today is the first of the birthdays on which Chloe's age will be an integral multiple of Zoe's age. What will be the sum of the two digits of Joey's age the next time his age is a multiple of Zoe's age?
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(E)
Solution
Suppose that Chloe is years old today, so Joey is years old today. After years, Chloe and Zoe will be and years old, respectively. We are given that is an integer for nonnegative integers It follows that has positive divisors. The prime factorization of is either or Since the only possibility is from which We conclude that Joey is years old today. Suppose that Joey's age is a multiple of Zoe's age after years, in which Joey and Zoe will be and years old, respectively. We are given that is an integer for some positive integer It follows that is divisible by so the only possibility is We conclude that Joey will be years old then, from which the answer is
Final answer
E