Jhon's family is such that each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers. And each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters. Find the number of boys and number of girls in Jhon's family.

• 3 girls and 4 boys
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• br--boy---sis
  x 1 x
  total=2x+1
  br-----gr----sis
  2(x-1) 1 (x-1)
  total= 3x-2
  so 2x+1=3x-2
  or x=3,so no of girl=3 and boy 3+1=4--(according to first expression)
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• 3 girls & four boys is the correct ans
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• Let the number of sons be s.
  Let the number of daughters be d.
  
  
  each boy in this family has as many sisters as brothers.
  i.e.,s-1=d .............(1)
  
  each girl has twice as many brothers as sisters
  i.e., 2(d-1)=s . ............(2)
  
  Therefore solving (1)&(2), we get,
  s=4, d=3...
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• Let the number of brothers be 'n'. Then the number of sisters will be 'n-1', because each boy has as many sisters as brothers. Each sister will have twice as many brothers as sisters. Hence
  2( n- 1-1) = n
  2 (n-2) = n
  2n - 4 = n
  2n - n = 4
  n = 4 boys n- 1 = 3 sisters
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