Combinations including if statement

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How many ways can a committee of 3 woman and 4 girls be chosen from 7 women and 6 girls such that if the eldest woman is in the committee then the youngest girl is not. I'm just not sure how the last bit factors in to the calculation.

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Consider two distinct cases.

1) The eldest woman is on the committee. Then it remains to choose $3-1$ women out of $7-1$ and $4$ girls out of $6-1$ (minus the youngest girl).

2) The eldest woman is not on the committee. Then we have to choose $3$ women out of $7-1$ (minus the eldest woman) and $4$ girls out of $6$.