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Pointing to a woman, a man said, “Her husband’s mother is the wife of my father’s only son”. How is the…

The correct choice is: Father-in-law ‘My father's only son’ is the man himself, so ‘the wife of my father's only son’ is the man's wife. She is the mother of the woman's…

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Pointing to a woman, a man said, “Her husband’s mother is the wife of my father’s only son”. How is the man related to that woman?

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The correct choice is: Father-in-law

‘My father's only son’ is the man himself, so ‘the wife of my father's only son’ is the man's wife.

She is the mother of the woman's husband, so the woman's husband is the man's son.

Hence the man is the woman's Father-in-law.

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