Well done to Elora, Thomas, Sarah and Katie at Ysgol Gynradd Dolgellau for their solution. Again, they took a very logical approach.

We estimated an age for Augustus to start and then tried different multiplying sums until we got to the answer.

40x40=1600

50x50=2500

45x45=2025

44x44=1936

43x43=1849

We thought that if he was 43 in 1849 he was born in 1806 and was 65 when he died. We thought that was reasonable.

The only way we think that someone living now would be able to say it is if someone who was born in1980 could say in 2025 that they are 45. A person who was 44 in 1936 would be 109 now and the oldest person we know of is only 101.