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posted by rick on October 31st, 2007 at 1:15PM

1) No, the ages are not fractional.
2) Yes, I did not tell you the number of trees.

The only clarification I can think of is that at the end Adam should have said "my oldest /kid/" rather than "my oldest /son/". Even then, that part of the hint might still be confusing and/or misleading.

There's something about the second hint that you missed.
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posted by dennisn on October 31st, 2007 at 3:57PM

Trees can grow in gardens. I hope it's not that. Moreover, the fact that he is able to actually count implies that they do exist.

posted by rick on October 31st, 2007 at 5:34PM

There are no limitations for the number of trees. I could have been a park.

Keep in mind that although /we/ don't know the number of trees, Adam and Bob /do/ know.

posted by dennisn on October 31st, 2007 at 8:18PM

Sigh. I should have suspected as much. Actually I did suspect the solution earlier, but was too lazy to actually compute the sums :) ...

answer: 2 2 9

posted by rick on October 31st, 2007 at 8:50PM

Correct. :)

I still think the last hint is a bit ambiguous though ... ah well.

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