Distributing candies

Question

Suppose ther are B boys and G girls in a classroom.Teacher wants to distribute candies among B boys and G girls such that:

1.Each student gets atleast one candy and atmost N candies.
2.sum of candies given to all boys equals sum of candies given to all girls.

find the number of different ways to do it.
Note:Two ways are considered different if there exists a student that received different number of candies in these two candies' distributions.

Example: if B=1 G=2 N=3 there are 3 ways, they are: (2, 1, 1), (3, 1, 2), (3, 2, 1).
if B=2 G=2 N=2 there are 6 ways, they are: (1, 1, 1, 1), (1, 2, 1, 2), (1, 2, 2, 1), (2, 1, 1, 2), (2, 1, 2, 1), (2, 2, 2, 2).

How to approach this problem?

Answer 1

With the function $c(m,x,t)$ counting the number of ways of distributing $m$ candies among $x$ people so nobody received more than $t$ (but they could receive zero), the answer would be $$\sum_{m=\max(B,G)}^{N\min(B,G)}\; c(m-B,B,N-1)c(m-G,G,N-1)$$

Added: To calculate $c(m,x,t)$, note that for all $t$ you start with $c(0,0,t)=1$ and $c(m,0,t)=0$ for $m \gt 0$, and then for $x\gt 0$ you can use:

$$c(m,x,t)=\sum_{j=0}^{\min(m,t)} c(m-j,x-1,t).$$

E.g. if $t=1$ then you get a table for $c(m,x,t)$ starting

x  m:0 1 2 3  
-  ---------
0    1 0 0 0
1    1 1 0 0
2    1 2 1 0
3    1 3 3 1

while if $t=2$ then you get a table for $c(m,x,t)$ starting

x  m:0 1 2 3  
-  ---------
0    1 0 0 0
1    1 1 1 0
2    1 2 3 2
3    1 3 6 7

Considering your example of $B=1$, $G=2$, $N=3$ we get $$c(2-1,1,3-1)c(2-2,2,3-1)+c(3-1,1,3-1)c(3-2,2,3-1)$$ $$=c(1,1,2)c(0,2,2)+c(2,1,2)c(1,2,2)$$ $$=1\times 1 + 1\times 2 = 3$$

while considering your example of $B=2$, $G=2$, $N=2$ we get $$c(2-2,2,2-1)c(2-2,2,2-1)+c(3-2,2,2-1)c(3-2,2,2-1)+c(4-2,2,2-1)c(4-2,2,2-1)$$ $$=c(0,2,1)c(0,2,1)+c(1,2,1)c(1,2,1)+c(2,2,1)c(2,2,1)$$ $$=1\times 1 + 2\times 2 + 1\times 1 = 6$$

so this approach reproduces your expected results.

Answer 2

Each boy should get G number of candies and each girl should get B number of candies. This would ensure that sum of the candies received by boys and girls is equal.