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    This document contains a logic and reasoning exercise with 12 problems. It begins with warmup problems involving deductions based on statements and relationships. The main section involves logic puzzles where the reader must determine relationships or answers based on clues. The problems get progressively more challenging, involving deductions around family relationships, amounts of money, flowers, and portraits. The document aims to engage and challenge the reader with puzzles that require logical thinking to solve.

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    Basic Logic

    Tanya Khovanova
    November 25, 2013

    — My teacher said we would have a test today, rain or shine.


    — Then why are you so happy?
    — Because it’s snowing.

    Class Discussion
    Statements, truth tables, logic operations: and, or, not, if.

    Warm-Up
    Exercise 1. Mary’s mom has four children. The first child is called April.
    The second May. The third June. What is the name of the fourth child?
    Exercise 2. Pete was walking with a dog. A stranger asked him: “Does
    your dog bite?” “Nope,” replied Pete. The dog then bit the stranger on his
    leg, yet Pete told the truth. Explain!

    Logic
    Exercise 3. Clarence’s favorite prank is to switch the signs on fish barrels.
    Today he mixed up the signs on the carp barrel, the catfish barrel, and the
    carp-and-catfish barrel, deliberately handing each sign on the wrong barrel.
    Clarence will let you see only one fish, but it can be from any barrel you
    choose. Using only this information, can you restore the signs to their rightful
    barrels? How?
    Exercise 4. The pups dug into dinner. Polaris ate more than Sirius; Castor
    ate less than Pollux; Pollux ate less than Sirius but more than Rigel. Which
    pup ate the second most?

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    Exercise 5. Wendy has cats. All but two of them are Siamese, all but two
    of them are Persian, and all but two of them are Maine Coon. How many
    cats does Wendy have altogether?
    Exercise 6. Yesterday I decided to relax before my energy-consuming work-
    day at AMSA. I decided to read a book or, if it is not raining, to go for a
    walk. I didn’t go for a walk. Was it raining yesterday?
    Exercise 7. What happens if an irresistible cannonball hits an immovable
    post?
    Exercise 8. Two men were being tried for murder. The jury found one of
    them guilty and the other one not guilty. The judge turned to the guilty one
    and said: “This is the strangest case I have ever come across! Though your
    guilt has been established beyond any reasonable doubts, the law compels
    me to set you free.”
    How do you explain this?
    Exercise 9. On prom night, the young ladies Rose, Daisy, and Iris gathered
    to get their picture taken. While posing, the girl wearing the rose corsage
    said, “I just noticed that the flowers in our corsages match our names, but
    none of us are wearing a flower that matches our own name.” “Wow!” said
    Iris, “You’re right!” Given these clues, can you identify what flower every girl
    was wearing?
    Exercise 10. 1999 AMC 8, Problem 6. Boe, Coe, Flo, Joe, and Moe
    have different amounts of money. Neither Jo nor Boe has as much money as
    Flo. Both Boe and Coe have more than Moe. Joe has more than Moe, but
    less than Boe. Who has the least amount of money?

    Challenge Problems
    Exercise 11. A man was looking at a portrait. Someone asked him, “Whose
    picture are you looking at?” He replied: “Brothers and sisters have I none,
    but this man’s father is my father’s son.”
    Whose picture was the man looking at?
    Exercise 12. A man was looking at a portrait. Someone asked him, “Whose
    picture are you looking at?” He replied: “Brothers and sisters have I none,
    but this man’s son is my father’s son.”
    Whose picture was the man looking at?

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