Mindbender

A: "Congratulations, but he does seem a bit old for you," said Clare. "How old is Ron anyway?"

Elsie smiled. "Well, I'll tell you. But it's love that matters, not age. If you multiply the sum of our two ages by their difference, you get one more than five times the square of my age."

Love's young dream! But what were their ages?

B: "How did you get on in the exam?" Linda asked. "The results were to be out today."

Susie nodded. "They were," she replied. "If five of the kids below me had been above me, there would have been as many above as below me. But, if five of the kids above had been below me, there would have been three times as many below as above me."

How many were above her?