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Half or not (Posted on 2002-11-14) Difficulty: 1 of 5
A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?

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Solution It can't be that odd | Comment 26 of 28 |

Four or more children are boys, thus (at least) "half" would still be boys. (A possibility is there are more than 7 children, yet then this answer would still be true, it would also allow an integer result from division by two.) 

Or there is an odd number of hermaphrodite or asexual children and the ratio of the other children's sexes, boy to girl, are equal.  


  Posted by Dej Mar on 2006-08-13 20:14:47
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