Article EV6A Can you solve it? How can you engineer a country with more girls than boys?

Can you solve it? How can you engineer a country with more girls than boys?

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Alex Bellos
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It's a family planning puzzle - can you maximise the proportion of girls in the population?

This week I've got babies on my mind because I'm about to become a dad. And thinking about kids has led me to my favourite conundrum about family-planning:

The government - which wants to increase the ratio of girls to boys - introduces a law for all couples that states:

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