Calculating smallest possible children in the family
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Each child in a family has at least 4 brothers and 2 sisters.
What is the smallest number of children the family might have?
Answering without much thinking…
For a boy to have at least 4 brothers, the family must have at least 5 boys (1 + 4 brothers). Similarly, For a girl to have at least 2 sisters, there must be at least 3 girls.
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