Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/52 - In the Year 1900

Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $52$

In the Year $1900$

A correspondent proposes the following question.

The reader may think, at first sight, that there is insufficient data for an answer, but he will be wrong:

A man's age at death was one-twenty-ninth of the year of his birth.

How old was he in the year $1900$?

Sources

• 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Arithmetical and Algebraical Problems: Age and Kinship Puzzles: $52$. -- In the Year $1900$
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