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 Replies: 21 — Last Post Feb. 23, 2008 11:20pm by Bobman21
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if your awnser would not change, then how can it be known the germans does in fact own the fish?
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norock
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Of course, it could be ANYTHING that the german owns.
Sure, one must have more information about the criteria in order to be SURE the german owns the fish, but we are sure of two things: 1) the german does not own the other 4 animals
2) the question states that there are 5 houses, 5 men, 5 colors, 5 drinks, 5 smokes, and 5 animals [more exclusively, they all own different types of animals. the correct answer would have to be something like:
Given the fact that we are not sure whether or not the five animals that the five men own are, in fact, a horse, a bird, a cat, a dog, and a fish [since fish is not implicitly stated in the criteria] we can only assume that because of the nature of the question "Who owns the fish?", that the German --owning none of the other animals, must then own the fish. however, it is stated that there are 5 animals, 4 which are accounted for in the criteria, leaving one to be unknown. the question asks who owns the fish, so one can logically assume that the question would not be asked if the fish were not --in fact-- the fifth and final animal. ^ that would be my answer if i were given this question on an exam or if i were asked it by a professor or other learned colleague. Post edited at 8:06 am on Feb. 22, 2008 by norock
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Bobman21
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It's POSSIBLE that there's another solution to the problem, but not likely. My solution has it as the German... 1st House: Norweigan, Yellow, Water, Dunhill, Cats
2nd House: Dane, Blue, Tea, Blends, Horses
3rd House: Brit, Red, Milk, Pall Mall, Birds
4th House: German, Green, Coffee, Prince, Fish
5th House: Swede, White, Beer, Blue Master, Dogs fits the criteria, anyway Post edited at 11:27 pm on Feb. 23, 2008 by Bobman21
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