Math riddles
Algebra
Level
2
A man was born on January 1st, 23 B.C. and died January 2nd, 23 A.D. How old did he live to be?
45
44
23
46
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1 solution
The man was born at 1st of Jan 23 b.c.e. and and died at 2nd of Jan 23 a.d. so he lived 45 years as 23 years to the year Christ was born and 22 years after Christ was born. We don't want to count the year Christ was born again.