SOLUTION: Veritas (people who tell the truth) always speak the truth, and Prevars (liars) always lie. A stranger in their country meets a party of three and asks to which group each belongs.

Question 183489: Veritas (people who tell the truth) always speak the truth, and Prevars (liars) always lie. A stranger in their country meets a party of three and asks to which group each belongs. The first mumbles an answer which the stranger cannot hear. The second says, " He said he was a Prevars." The third says tot he second, "You're a liar!" Of what group was the third?
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Answer by ptaylor(2198) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

What did the first person have to say?????
If the first person who mumbled was a Veritas, then he would have told the truth and said he was a Veritas. If the first person was a Prevars then he would have lied and said that he was a Veritas.
Therefore, the second person lied and the third person told the truth.
Third person--------------Veritas.
Hope this helps---ptaylor
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