Question

A woman introduces a man as the son of the brother of her mother. How is the man related to the woman?

• A. Nephew
• B. son
• C. cousin
• D. uncle

Hint:

Break it into two steps: mother's brother is the uncle, and the uncle's son is the cousin.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

A family-tree approach makes the chain visual instead of purely verbal.

1. Place the woman and her mother: draw the woman as a point, with a line up to her mother.
2. Add the mother's brother: from the mother, draw a sibling line to a second person, this is the maternal uncle of the woman.
3. Add the uncle's son: from the uncle, draw a line down to his son, this is the man described in the question.
4. Read the final connection: the woman and the man are both one generation below a pair of siblings (the woman's mother and her brother), which is exactly the structure of a cousin relationship.

Tracing the tree confirms the man is the woman's cousin. \[ \boxed{cousin} \]