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March 31, 2004
The Bixby Boys
It was the first day of class and Mrs. Feldman had two identical-looking pupils, Ben and Chris Bixby, sitting together in the first row.
"You two are twins, I take it?" she asked.
"No," they replied in unison.
But a check of their records showed that they had the same parents and were born on the same day. How could this be?
Adapted with permission from Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection by Peter Winkler. Copyright © 2004 by A K Peters, Ltd. See www.akpeters.com/book.asp?bID=197.
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Think three.
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They were triplets. The third, Aaron, was in another class.
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