LESSON 4: LOGIC PROBLEMS

LEVEL 1
Problem 1: Three people are talking.
A: I am a man but I am not working right now.
B: I am not either.
Tick the correct jobs of the three people.

Problem 2: Three people are talking about how they get to work.
Bean: I do not travel on foot.
David: I drive to work.
Tick the correct means of transportation of each person

LEVEL 2
Problem 1: Five people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished
before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order?
Answer: ………

Problem 2: Jack is looking at Anne. Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, George is not,
and we don’t know if Anne is married. Is a marriedperson looking at an unmarried person?
Answer: ………

Problem 3: The day before two days after the day before tomorrow is Saturday. What day is it today?
Answer: ………

Problem 4: Suppose there are 3 people A, B, and C, each of whom makes these claims:
Person A says, "B is telling the truth."
Person B says, ‘A is not guilty.’
Person C says, ‘A is guilty.’
Given that only one of them is telling he truth, can you determine who is guilty?
Answer: ………

LEVEL 3
Problem 1: There are 3 boxes, exactly one of which has a car. You can keep the car if you pick the correct
box. On each box there is a statement, exactly one of which is true.
Box 1: the car is in this box.
Box 2: The car is not in this box.
Box 3: The car is not in box 1.
Which box has the car?
Answer: ………
Problem 2: On the island of Knights and Knaves, I met three people A, B, and C, one of whom is a knight,
another is a knave, and the other is a spy. The knight always tells the truth, the knave always lies, and the
spy can either lie or tell the truth.
A says, "I am the knight."; B says, "I am the knave."; C says, "I am the spy.” Who is the spy?
Answer: ………

Problem 3: Kaleana shows her test score to Quay,

Marty and Shana, but the others keep theirs hidden.
List the scores from lowest to highest for Marty (M),
Quay (Q) and Shana (S).
Answer: ………

LEVEL 4
Problem 1: Two strange men live in Strange country: Peter,
who lies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, but tells the
truth on all the other days; and Paul, who lies on every
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, but tells the truth on all the
other days. One day they said:
What day of the week was that?
Answer: ………

Problem 2: Four students are standing behind the doors

without knowing each other but they are all told that there
are 2 boys and 2 girls among them.
A looks at B then shouts out loud: “I don’t know if C is a
boy or a girl yet”.
C hears it and says: “Now I am quite sure that D is a girl”.
Can you tell whether C is a boy or a girl? Why?
(suppose that boys and girls do not sound differently and no one lies).
Answer: ………

Problem 3: You have two ropes that each take an hour to burn, but burn at inconsistent
rates. How can you measure 45 minutes? (You can light one or both ropes at one or both
ends at the same time).
Answer: ……….

Problem 4: Mr. John tells each of three of his students a secret number, Bob, Mark, and Joe. No one knows
the other’s numbers but they all know that the sum of the three numbers is 10.
Bob says: “I’m sure that Mark and Joe have different numbers”.
Immediately, Mark says “Now I think I already know both Bob’s number and Joe’s number but not sure
which one is which”.
What is Mark’s number?
Answer: ………