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Twenty one participants from four continents (Africa, Americas, Australia, and Europe) attended a United Nations conference. Each participant was an expert in one of four fields, labour, health, population studies, and refugee relocation. The following five facts about the participants are given:

  • The number of labour experts in the camp was exactly half the number of experts in each of the other three categories.
  • Africa did not send any labour expert. Otherwise, every continent, including Africa, sent at least one expert for each category.
  • None of the continents sent more than three experts in any category.
  • If there had been one less Australian expert, then the Americas would have had twice as many experts as each of the other continents.
  • Mike and Alfanso are leading experts of population studies who attended  the conference. They are from Australia.

Which of the following combinations is not possible?

  1. $2$ experts in population studies from Americas and $2$ experts from Africa attended the conference.
  2. $2$ experts in population studies from Americas and $1$ expert from Africa attended the conference.
  3. $2$ experts in refugee relocation  from Americas and $1$ expert from Africa attended the conference.
  4. Africa and Americas each had $1$ expert in population studies attending the conference.

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