A woman is going with a child. On asking the woman about her relation with the…
2015
A woman is going with a child. On asking the woman about her relation with the child, she replied ‘The child’s mother is the only daughter of my mother’. How is the woman related to the child?
- A.
Mother
- B.
Sister
- C.
Aunty
- D.
Daughter
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept: In blood-relation puzzles, restate every relationship phrase as a direct kinship link, and resolve a phrase like “the only [relation] of Y” as pointing to one specific family member rather than a separate, unnamed person — then substitute that identity back into the sentence.
Application:
The woman states: “The child’s mother is the only daughter of my mother.”
“My mother” refers to the woman’s own mother.
The woman is herself one of her mother’s children, and her mother has only ONE daughter — so that only daughter can only be the woman herself.
Therefore “the only daughter of my mother” = the woman.
Substituting back: “the child’s mother” = the woman.
Cross-check: If the woman had a sister, her mother would have more than one daughter, which would contradict the word “only” in the statement. So the phrase can only describe the speaker herself, confirming the direct parent link between the woman and the child.
Result: The woman is the child’s mother.