Wayne Bundrick
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No, no, no, I have to defend Jane here.
She couldn't count all those playing kids (perhaps some were at the back of the house). Again we have a clue here: otherwise the friend wouldn't have felt a need to say that she couldn't form a baseball team with them.Okay, I'll buy that. Jane's friend wouldn't have had to say there weren't enough to play baseball if Jane could see that for herself.
With this logic the answer must be 2,3,4,5. It is the only combination that makes 120 with the smallest number being 2. If the smallest number was 1 then Jane would need more information because there are two such combinations that make 120.
But I still think Jane should have already known how many kids her friend had, and since each of the three combinations making 120 has a different largest number, she wouldn't have needed to ask anything to figure it out.