Difficulty: Fun
Ash and Stacy Brull have five daughters. Each of their daughters has one brother. How many people are there in the Brull family?
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Remember to count parents, daughters and sons separately!
Ash and Stacy only have one son, who is a brother to all their daughters! So there are two parents, five daughters and a son. That makes eight people in total.
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28 May, 2020 at 7:30 am
Are you *trying* to trick readers? 😉
(You’ve used a plural verb-conjugation, for a singular noun.)
28 May, 2020 at 9:09 am
Whee! good catch – I’ll fix the grammar now…