self Maths Puzzle

Doo-Bee-Doo had born on 1468 B.C. He had lived one-fourth of his life as a boy, one-third of his life as a youth, one-fifth of his life as a man and the remaining 52 years as an old man. Which year did Doo-Bee-Doo die?

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A woman took a certain number of eggs to the market and sold some of them. A next day, through the industry of her hens, the number left over had been doubled, and she sold the same number as the previous day.
On the third day the new remainder was tripled, and she sold the same number as before.
On the fourth day the remainder was quadrupled, and her sales were the same as before.
On the fifth day what had been left over were quintupled, yet she sold exactly the same as on all the previous occasions and so disposed of her entire stock.
(i) What is the smallest number of eggs she could have taken to market the first day?
(ii) How many did she sell daily? (The answer is not zero). Pointing to a man, a lady says that his father is the third son of her grandmother. How is the lady related to that man?