a woman has 7 children and half are boys tale
Once upon a time, there was a woman who had seven children. One day, she was talking to her neighbor, and the neighbor, curious about the children, asked, “How many boys do you have?”
The woman smiled and replied, “Half of my children are boys.”
The neighbor was puzzled and asked again, “But you have seven children. How can half of them be boys if seven is an odd number?”
The woman laughed and said, “Ah, that’s the trick! You see, one of my children is a boy, and the other half are girls. The key is in how we look at it—there’s one boy, and the rest are girls, so in total, the number of boys is half of the total number of children, counting the one boy as half of the group.”
The neighbor finally understood, and from that day on, the saying “half are boys” became a playful riddle among the community. It reminded everyone that sometimes, things aren’t as simple as they seem at first glance, and that it’s all in how you interpret them!