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Answers to Sports Trivia

1991

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Question #1

If each boy in the family has at least 4 brothers, then the smallest number of boys is 5.

Similarly, if each girl in the family has at least 4 sisters, then the smallest number of girls is 5.

Thus, the smallest number of children the family might have is 10.

Question #2

The 5th child is directly opposite the 19th child.
Since 19 - 5 = 14, there are 14 children in half the circle.
(Note that half the circle includes one child out of the 5th child and the 19th child.)
Thus, there are 28 children altogether in the full circle.

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