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Monday, April 24, 2006
Big family
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have six daughters and each daughter has one brother. How many people are in the Smith family?
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9 - every female offspring of mr and mrs smith can have the same male offspring be the same person
ReplyDeleteYou got it. There are nine Mustards in the family. Since each daughter shares the same brother, there are six girls, one boy and Mr. and Mrs. Mustard.
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