5. Logic
Assign consistent truth values to the following statements in order to
find the solution to this puzzle.
- The total number of true statements is even.
- The total number of true statements is odd.
- The answer word is obtained by chopping up the forty truth
values into
eight segments of equal length, and using a common five-bit
encoding.
- The answer word is obtained by chopping up the forty truth
values into
five segments of equal length, and using a common eight-bit
encoding.
- Exactly half of the first ten statements are true.
- If statement 7 is true, then statement 8 is true.
- There is a block of four or more consecutive false
statements.
- The next statement is true.
- Of the statements numbered with a multiple of 9, at least
half are
true.
- Of the statements numbered with a multiple of 10, all are
true.
- Of the statements numbered with a multiple of 11, all are
true.
- Of the statements numbered with a number that gives a
remainder of 2
after division by 8, at least one is false.
- If the next statement were replaced with "All of the
statements
beginning 'Of the statements' are true", its truth value
would remain the
same.
- If the previous statement were replaced with "If the next
statement
were replaced with "All of the statements beginning 'Of the
statements'
are false", its truth value would remain the same", its truth
value would
change.
- All or none of the next three statements are true.
- Each statement numbered with a number ending in 5 is
false.
- Both the previous and next statements are false.
- The next two prime-numbered statements are false.
- Of the next three statements, an odd number are true.
- There are as many true statements preceeding this
statement, as there
are true statements following this statement.
- Exactly one of the previous and next statements are true.
- Statement 26 is true.
- The next statement is the first statement in the longest
block of
consecutive false statements.
- Either both or neither of the previous two statements are
true.
- Statement 20 is false.
- Statement 36 is false.
- At least half of the statements numbered with a number
divisible by
four are true.
- More than half of the next five statements are true.
- If the next statement is true, then so is this one.
- Exactly one of the previous and next statements are true.
- Statement 6 is false, and statement 3 is true.
- Statement 15 is true.
- The previous statement is true.
- Of the next three statements, an even number are true.
- Exactly one-third of the true statements are numbered
with a prime
number.
- Exactly one of the previous and next statements are true.
- There is only one true statement on the list after this
statement.
- Of the previous and next statements, either both or
neither are true.
- Mathcamp 1999 was held in an fortified concrete bunker
buried 100 feet
below ground, and an unspecified location somewhere outside
of Ft.
Collins, Colorado.
- Mathcamp 1999 was held at the University of Washington in
Seattle,
Washington; and, of the statements which are labelled with a
number giving a remainder of 4 on division by 6, the number
which are true is a multiple of 3. Well, either that, or
this entire statement is false, and the clause after the
semicolon in the previous sentence is false.