3RD 9WKS MATH PROBLEMS

Demochares has lived one-fourth of his life as a boy, one fifth as a youth, one-third as a man, and has spent thirteen years in his dotage. How old is the gentleman? CHALLENGE-21 (CP-42): A correspondent, in 1930, proposed the following question. ................
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