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Riddle Me This

It's not easy to find unique riddles on the internet anymore, you pretty much get similar ones everywhere. What's a riddle you've heard from friends and family that got you stumped?
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
2 merchants are meeting..merchant A and merchant B
A: how old are your 3 daughters ?
B: if you add their ages they are 13... if you multiplay their ages you get my own age.
A: well i need to know your age then
B shows him without any commentary his passport where A can read the age.
A: thats all good.. but to clearly solve this i need more information
B: my oldest daughter plays the harp.
A: ok, now its all clear to me.

How old are Bs daughters
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@DS1980 one hint.. this is not a pure math puzzle... but it has a logic solution
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@DS1980 nope
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@DS1980 no... also just randomly saying number combinations you will eventually hit the right one... so kinda need an explanation too.

and this was a big hint to how to approach the puzzle too
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@DS1980 good thought but its more sophisticated then this...
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FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@DS1980 this is not an easy puzzle... i never had anyone solve it without getting hints... so here is another hint:
there is information given that you overread and dont recognize as information that is absolutely needed to solve it.... that what makes is such a nice puzzle
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@FreeLilly We'll start with listing all combinations that add up to 13, and add the multiple for the next step too:

11 * 1 * 1 = 11
10 * 2 * 1 = 20
9 * 3 * 1 = 27
9 * 2 * 2 = 36
8 * 4 * 1 = 32
8 * 3 * 2 = 48
7 * 5 * 1 = 35
7 * 4 * 2 = 56
7 * 3 * 3 = 63
6 * 6 * 1 = 36
6 * 5 * 2 = 60
6 * 4 * 3 = 70
5 * 5 * 3 = 75
5 * 4 * 4 = 80

Although we don't know what the multiple is, we do know the guy still isn't sure. Therefore the multiple must leave us with more than one option. The only one doing so is 36, so we can narrow it down to either 9, 2 and 2 or 6, 6 and 1.

That's were the last hint comes in. The harp isn't important, but there is an eldest one. That means we can eliminate 6, 6 and 1 leaving us with 9, 2 and 2 as the correct ages.
FreeLilly · 18-21, F
@NerdyPotato you got the correct answer. impressive