Pointing to a woman, Sanjay said, "She is the mother-in-law of the wife of my father's only son." How is the woman related to Sanjay?

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Sanjay's father's only son is Sanjay himself (or, if Sanjay were a woman, her only brother).
The mother-in-law of that son's wife is that son's mother.
Either way, she is the mother of Sanjay's father's children, so she is Sanjay's mother.

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Mother-in-law is her relation to the wife in the chain, not to Sanjay. Peel the chain from the inside and the whole sentence collapses to 'my mother'.

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Pointing to a woman, Sanjay said, "She is the mother-in-law of the wife of my father's only son." How is the woman related to Sanjay?

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