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emayank
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Who made above statements???
« on: Dec 29th, 2004, 8:37am » |
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1. Statements given by different family members.
1. B is my father's brother
2. E is my mother-in-law.
3. C is my son-in -law's brother
4. A is my brother's wife.
A,B,C,D,E are the family members. Who made above statements and give their relations.
I require more than one solution
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Noke Lieu
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Re: Who made above statements???
« Reply #1 on: Jan 12th, 2005, 4:53pm » |
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Yehaw! 
This is nice. I see why noone's touched it. 
sure it wasn't my brother's son in law?
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SWF
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Re: Who made above statements???
« Reply #2 on: Jan 13th, 2005, 6:15pm » |
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Here are two solutions. The following are common to both of these solutions:
B (husband) is married to A.
C and B are brothers, and C makes statement 4.
E is A's mother, and E makes statement 3.
B makes statment 2.
For the first solution, D is the child of C, and D makes statment 1.
For the second solution, C is A's father, and A makes statment 1. D can be anyone. So brothers are married to a mother and her daughter (assuming A's parents are married).
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Re: Who made above statements???
« Reply #3 on: Jan 20th, 2005, 8:48am » |
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I totally agree with solution 1 which is a perfect answer, but solution 2 does not seem to make sense as A (wife) would be married to her uncle (B) if C is A's father and C and B are brothers.
Also, another pretty trivial (but I think still makes sense) solution is that all 4 statements are made by D who can be anybody that satisfy the 4 criteria. What do you think?
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SWF
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Re: Who made above statements???
« Reply #4 on: Jan 20th, 2005, 8:06pm » |
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Yes, she would be married to her uncle, but that is not unheard of.
The beginning of the question says that the statments are made by different family members, so they cannot all be made by D.
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