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The Married Man
Lee, Dale and Terry are related to each other.
(a) Among the three are Lee's legal spouse, Dale's sibling and Terry's sister-in-law.
(b) Lee's legal spouse and Dale's sibling are of the same sex.
Which one is the married man?
(a) Among the three are Lee's legal spouse, Dale's sibling and Terry's sister-in-law.
(b) Lee's legal spouse and Dale's sibling are of the same sex.
Which one is the married man?
Answer
Dale is the married man.From statement (a) there are two possibilities:
1) Lee is married to Dale and Terry is Dale's sibling.
2) Lee is married to Terry and Dale is Lee's sibling.
Statement (b) rules out (2) above since Lee and Terry (the married couple) would have to be the same sex.
Since (1) is true then statement (a) says that Lee is Terry's sister-in-law, making Lee's spouse Dale the married man.
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that doesn't make sense
Sure it does. Good teaser.
Yeah...Great teaser.
Great fun and not too easy :-)
Keep 'em coming
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perfect! not too easy or too hard and didnt take all day to figure out.
i agree w/ lacey1235- makes no sense to me
What if Lee is gay?
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