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Logic Puzzle Answers and Solutions

The document contains summaries of several logic puzzles and word problems. It provides the essential details and conclusions for each puzzle in 1-3 concise sentences. The summaries cover topics such as a bookworm eating pages, statements on boxes with gold, tenants paying for a hotel room, withdrawals from a bank account, and arranging baskets of balls.

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Logic Puzzle Answers and Solutions

The document contains summaries of several logic puzzles and word problems. It provides the essential details and conclusions for each puzzle in 1-3 concise sentences. The summaries cover topics such as a bookworm eating pages, statements on boxes with gold, tenants paying for a hotel room, withdrawals from a bank account, and arranging baskets of balls.

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Name ___________________ Date _______________

Logic Puzzle
Answers
The Bookworm
The Ten Gallon Hat
On a book shelf the first page of the first volume is
Fill A 2. Pour 4 gallons into B 3. 5 gallons on the "inside" so the bookworm eats only through
remain in A 4. Empty B 5. Refill B from A- the cover of the first volume, then 8 times 1000
this leaves 1 gallon in A 6. Empty B and put pages of Volumes 2 - 9, then through the cover to
the 1 gallon from A into B 7. Refill A 8. Fill B the 1st page of Vol 10. He eats 8,000 pages.
from A. This will take 3 gallons, leaving 6 in
A If the bookworm ate the first page and the last
page, it ate 8,004 pages.
The Golf Bal Caper
Where's the Gold?
5:59 - Because each minute, the number
The sign on box A says "The sign on box B is true
of balls double! and the gold is in box A". The sign on box B says
"The sign on box A is false and the gold is in box
The Farmer A". The following argument can be made: If the
statement on box A is true, then the statement on
The farmer ended up with $90. box B is true, since that is what the statement on
box A says. But the statement on box B states that
The total he had was: $60 + $10 from his the statement on box A is false, which contradicts
wife == $70. the original assumption. Therefore, the statement
on box A must be false. This implies that either the
statement on box B is false or that the gold is in
$90 - $70 = $20 dollars profit. box B. If the statement on box B is false, then
either the statement on box A is true (which it
The Hotel cannot be) or the gold is in box B. Either way, the
gold is in box B.
Each person paid $9, totalling $27. The
manager has $25 and the bellboy $2. Where's my Camel?
The bellboy's $2 should be added to the
manager's $25 or subtracted from the The wiseman tells them to switch camels.
tenants' $27, not added to the tenants'
$27. The Bank

How Old Are You Now? There is no reason whatever why the customer's
original deposit of $100 should equal the total of
the balanes left after each withdrawal. The total of
Tim is 3, Jane is 8, and Mary is 15. Clue withdrawals in the left-hand colum must always
number 1 leads to the situation a year and a equal $100, but is is purely coincidence that the
half ago, when Tim was 1 1/2, Jane was 6 total of the right-hand column is close to $100.
1/2, and Mary was 13 1/2.

The Basket Case


The Hours Up!
Mark the baskets or line them up. Take 1 ball from
Start both hourglasses. When the 4-minute the 1st basket, 2 balls from the 2nd, 3 balls from
glass runs out, turn it over (4 minutes the 3rd etc. Put them all on the scale. Their mass

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