document.write( "Question 1178802: Each of four siblings (Edmund, Genalyn, Madelyn, and Sonia) bought four
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Each of four siblings (Edmund, Genalyn, Madelyn, and Sonia) bought four
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "b. Genalyn, also living alone, is younger than the one who bought the
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document.write( "There are 3 houses.  \r\n" );
document.write( "Edmund lives in one by himself (by clue a)\r\n" );
document.write( "Genalyn lives in one house by herself (by clue b)\r\n" );
document.write( "Therefore Madalyn & Sonia live in the same house\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we have three houses.  We start with all four cars for each person and\r\n" );
document.write( "we will eliminate them using the clues.\r\n" );
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document.write( "House        House 1    House 2         House 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Resident(s)  Edmund     Genalyn     Madalyn & Sonia\r\n" );
document.write( "Cars?         HMTS        HTMS        HTMS     HTMS\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edmund did not buy the Honda (by clue a)\r\n" );
document.write( "Edmund did not buy the Suzuki (by clue a)\r\n" );
document.write( "Edmund did not buy the Toyota (by clue c, since he lives alone)\r\n" );
document.write( "Therefore Edmund bought the Mitsubishi.\r\n" );
document.write( "We eliminate all but the Mitsubishi for Edmund in house 1\r\n" );
document.write( "We eliminate the Mishibish from Houses 2 and 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Now we have this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "House        House 1    House 2         House 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Resident(s)  Edmund     Genalyn     Madalyn & Sonia\r\n" );
document.write( "Cars           M          HT S        HT S     HT S  \r\n" );
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document.write( "The Toyota goes to house 3 (by clue c)\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we eliminate Toyota from House 2\r\n" );
document.write( "Now we have this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "House        House 1    House 2         House 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Resident(s)  Edmund     Genalyn     Madalyn & Sonia\r\n" );
document.write( "Cars           M          H  S        HT S     HT S\r\n" );
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document.write( "We eliminate T from Madelyn (clue c), and so Sonia bought the T,\r\n" );
document.write( "So we eliminate H and from Sonia, and eliminate the T from Madelyn \r\n" );
document.write( "Now we have:\r\n" );
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document.write( "House        House 1    House 2         House 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Resident(s)  Edmund     Genalyn     Madelyn & Sonia\r\n" );
document.write( "Cars           M          H  S        H  S      T\r\n" );
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document.write( "Madelyn did not like Suzuki (clue 3) so we eliminate S from Madelyn, and\r\n" );
document.write( "since that leaves only H for Madelyn, we must eliminate H from Genalyn in\r\n" );
document.write( "House 2.\r\n" );
document.write( "So we end up with this:\r\n" );
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document.write( "House        House 1    House 2         House 3\r\n" );
document.write( "Resident(s)  Edmund     Genalyn     Madalyn & Sonia\r\n" );
document.write( "Cars           M             S        H         T\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edmund bought the Mitsubishi. \r\n" );
document.write( "Genalyn bought the Subaru.\r\n" );
document.write( "Madelyn bought the Honda.\r\n" );
document.write( "Sonia bought the Toyota. \r\n" );
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