In a film, the actor Charles Coburn plays an elderly uncle character criticized for marrying a woman
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In a film, the actor Charles Coburn plays an elderly “uncle” character criticized for marrying a woman when he is 3 times her age. He wittily replies, “Ah, but in 20 years time I shall only be twice her age.” How old is the “uncle” and the woman?
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