Cosmological epoch of matter-radiation equality

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Homework Statement


If Ω_0m=0.25 and Ω_0R=7.4*10^-5 calculate the redshift when the two densities Ω_m and Ω_R are equal.

Relevant Equations
1+z=1/a
\Omega = \frac{rho}{rho_{crit}}
\rho_{0,crit} = \frac{3 H_{0}^{2}}{8 \pi G}

The attempt at a solution

convert matter density: \epsilon_{0,m} = \rho_{0,m} c^{2} = \Omega_{m,0} \rho_{crit,0} c^{2}

sub in for critical density: \epsilon_{0,m} = \Omega_{m,0} \frac{3 H_{0}^{2}}{8 \pi G} c^{2}

calculate ratio of matter to radiation: \frac{\epsilon_{R}}{\epsilon{M}} = \frac{\Omega_{R,0}}{\Omega{M,0}} \frac{8 \pi G c^{2}}{3 H_{0}^{2}}

and as \epsilon_{R} \propto 1/a^{4} and \epsilon_{M} \propto 1/a^{3} and ρ0/a^3 = ρ

\frac{\epsilon_{R}}{\epsilon{M}} = \frac{\epsilon_{0,R}}{\epsilon{0,M}} 1/a

put \frac{\epsilon_{R}}{\epsilon{M}} = 1 so

1 = \frac{\Omega_{M,0}}{\Omega{R,0}} \frac{3 H_{0}^{2}}{8 \pi G c^{2}} (1+z)

This comes out as 1+z = 3.215*10^-6
and so gives a negative redshift!

Now I have either done something terribly wrong or the Omegas given are for an arbitrary universe in which the equality epoch has yet to occur!Thanks
 
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Sudden realisation (maybe):

Is it because
(ϵR)(ϵM) = (ϵ_0,R) (ϵ_0,M) a
not

(ϵR)(ϵM) = (ϵ_0,R) (ϵ_0,M) 1/a??

1+z≈311000?
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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