A woman points to a man and says, "He is the widower of the daughter of the brother of my uncle." Based on this description, how is the man related to the woman?

Introduction / Context:
This problem uses a chain of relations through an uncle and his brother to describe a woman whose widower is the man being pointed at. We must decode the phrase and then decide how the man is related to the woman. These questions are common in reasoning tests and require careful attention to each step of the relationship chain.

Given Data / Assumptions:
• The speaker is a woman.• She mentions her uncle, that uncle's brother and the daughter of that brother.• The man is the widower of that daughter.• An uncle is usually a brother of one of the parents.• We assume the brother of that uncle is another sibling of the parent, not necessarily the parent itself, so that the daughter is usually a cousin of the woman.

Concept / Approach:
First, identify the daughter mentioned. The woman speaks of the brother of her uncle. Both the uncle and his brother are part of the parental generation. The brother of her uncle is very often another uncle or possibly her own parent. The daughter of that brother is typically a cousin of the woman. The man is the widower of that cousin, meaning he is the husband of the woman's cousin. In many family relation questions, the husband of a cousin is treated as a brother in law of the speaker. Therefore the man is best described as the brother in law of the woman.

Step-by-Step Solution:
Step 1: Let U be the uncle of the woman. U is a brother of one of her parents.Step 2: Let B be the brother of U. B is also in the parental generation of the woman and is typically another uncle or her parent.Step 3: The daughter of B is a woman in the same generation as the speaker, and is normally her cousin.Step 4: The man being pointed to is the widower of this daughter, so he is the husband of the woman's cousin.Step 5: The husband of a cousin is commonly referred to as a brother in law in many reasoning questions and family descriptions.Step 6: Therefore, from the speaker's perspective, the man is her brother in law.

Verification / Alternative check:
Draw a family in which a grandparent has at least three children, including the speaker's parent, the uncle U and the uncle or parent B. B has a daughter who becomes a cousin of the speaker. The man is married to this cousin and is now a widower. This man is connected by marriage into the extended family. In the standard vocabulary used in such problems, he is treated as the brother in law of the speaker, because he is the spouse of a cousin in the same generation.

Why Other Options Are Wrong:
Brother of the woman: That would require the man to share both parents with the woman, which is not indicated.Uncle of the woman: An uncle would be a brother of a parent or the husband of an aunt, which does not match the description of being husband of a cousin.Nephew of the woman: A nephew is a child of a sibling or close cousin, not a spouse of a cousin in the same generation.No direct family relation: The chain explicitly shows a family connection through the cousin.

Common Pitfalls:
Many candidates misinterpret the brother of my uncle as always being the parent and then mistakenly treat the daughter as the speaker herself. That would make the man her own widower, which obviously cannot be the current relationship in the question setting. Treating the brother of the uncle as another relative in the same parental generation and recognising the daughter as a cousin avoids this trap and leads correctly to brother in law.

Final Answer:
The man is the brother in law of the woman.