Question: Here is an example of the sort of "Breakfast Problem" propounded by Metrodorus in 310 A.D.
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?
Answer: Demochares must be just sixty years of age.
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