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How Many Children ? (Posted on 2003-01-28)

“We – A, B and C – each have some children.

(i) A has at least one girl and twice as many boys as girls.

(ii) B has at least one girl and three times as many boys as girls.

(iii) C has at least one girl and three more boys than girls.

(iv) When I tell you the number of children we have – a number less than 25 – you will know how many children I have, but not how many children each of the others has. Altogether we have……..”

Who is the speaker and how many children does the speaker have?

See The Solution Submitted by Ravi Raja

Rating: 2.3846 (13 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
Explanation to Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-07-27 22:28:44
Puzzle Answer	K Sengupta	2022-07-27 22:17:12
re: The provided solution is incorrect - here is the correct one.	Scott	2008-02-15 17:27:22
re: Why not this	Michael Cottle	2005-01-13 03:20:49
re: No Subject	Gamer	2005-01-11 11:22:04
No Subject	edward	2004-08-03 04:50:12
The provided solution is incorrect - here is the correct one.	Erik O.	2004-06-07 21:42:43
Why not this	paks	2003-02-10 16:11:51
re(3): My answer	Mack	2003-02-02 12:10:14
re(2): My answer	Mack	2003-02-02 12:07:46
re: Answer	Tony	2003-01-29 05:45:33
Answer	Gautam	2003-01-28 19:43:48
Agree	np_rt	2003-01-28 14:21:05
re: My answer	Tony	2003-01-28 09:09:16
My answer	Jim McCrank	2003-01-28 08:35:40

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