Miss Honey told the children in her class to form pairs, each consisting of a boy and a girl. For her own amusement, mentally calculated the number of different ways this could be done.
Miss Wormwood also told her class to form into pairs, but with at least one single-sex pair. She also insisted that the girls Matilda and Susie did not pair up together as they were the most troublesome of her girls. She too calculated the number of different ways that this could be done.
Both teachers arrived at the same answer. How many children were in each class?
re(2): need a better formula (!!)
