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Half or not (Posted on 2002-11-14)

A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

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The woman has 4 boys and 3 girls. One Half are boys, plus an additional 1/14 are boys as well.

Similarly for 1/2 + 3/14 or 1/2 + 5/14.

Posted by Charlie on 2003-02-21 04:10:07

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