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A person was born in 1975 and he died in 1995. He was 25 years of age when he died. How?

(This one's a lateral thinking puzzle )

I once knew someone named justlooking,
Who had a knack for hookin'
Everytime he tried his skill

Ist truck:-    3 full cylinders, 1 half-full and 3 empty
IInd truck:-  2 full cylinders, 3 half-full and 2 empty
IIIrd truck:- 2 full cylinders, 3 half-full and 2 empty

PS:- The Moderator may remove my reply if he/she wants it to be left open.

Jenilia, we shall prepare you for the Olympiad;
I shall start with my first lesson,
do you know how recurring decimals are converted into fractions?
Lets assume x=0.1414141414....................
100 x = 14.14141414.....................
Deducting equation (2) from (1),
99x = 14
x = 14/99

I saw this problem and I was impressed. I didn't know someone had posted a similiar problem earlier. Okay, I shall give the solution and post a new problem instead.
The solution :- 6 /(1-3/4)

The new problem #3
Imagine you are writing numbers from 1 to 1000 on a piece of paper. How many times would you write the number'9'?

I shall try to solve that when I start the next week,
here's my problem for the day

Using the numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6, together with the operations +, -, ×, and ÷, and unlimited use of brackets, make the number 24.  Each number must be used precisely once.  Each operation may be used zero or more times.  Decimal points are not allowed, nor is implicit use of base 10 by concatenating digits, as in 64 - 31.

I am jumping in!

Thats right!
This is how it is solved.
40 litres of milk and water contain 10% water.
Therefore, the milk content is 36 litres and water is 4 litres.
Lets assume x litres of water are added to make water 20%.
The ratio of water to the total becomes
4+x/40+x
this is equal to 20/100 or 1/5.
4+x/40+x = 1/5,
5(4+x) = 40+x
20+5x = 40+x
4x=20
x=5 litres

I am too old...I am more than 10,000 days old!

who looked much like a lizard

I can live on 100 litres of coke a month, without food

This is much more complicated than what I thought!