Odd Family

@SaraCate (184)
Canada
January 12, 2008 5:23pm CST
A family has 33 children, a half of them are girls. How many of the children are boys?
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7 responses
SViswan
@SViswan (12051)
• India
13 Jan 08
The other half! I can't figure out where the loophole is! Is it in the 'a half'?
SaraCate
@SaraCate (184)
• Canada
13 Jan 08
Hello all! I acutally figured it out finally - at least the answer the riddle-maker was looking for - but I'm going to hold out, at least for a while, and see if anyone else comes up with that answer!
SViswan
@SViswan (12051)
• India
26 Jan 08
I doubt if anyone else is going to come up with an answer. So, what is it?
IT S JAF
@piesmeralda (388)
• Philippines
2 Feb 08
Just a try. All 33 are boys but they are all gays. LOL!
Lindalinda
@Lindalinda (4111)
• Canada
26 Jan 08
They must be all girls since otherwise you would have to cut one in half.
kamran12
@kamran12 (5526)
• Pakistan
13 Jan 08
Hello SaraCate! Is it possible that all of them are girls such that there are no boys just girls? Or, may be half are girls and half are boys and one is of both sexess?
YamiKiba
@YamiKiba (937)
• United States
26 Jan 08
My guess is either all of them are girls or there's a herphodite in the family who hasn't decided their gender yet lol. But I go with my first answer. All girls, so none of them are boys. :P
mer2001
@mer2001 (90)
• Philippines
27 Jan 08
Maybe the family has a single parent, the mother. The word "them" refers to the family, so 33(children) + 1 (mother, considered girl) = 34 divided by 2 = 17. So 17 of the children are boys and 16 of the children are girls. Is it?
enbrown
@enbrown (282)
• United States
12 Jan 08
Darn it I was hoping someone had already answered it! lol