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There are 4 big houses in my home town.
They are made from these materials: red marbles, green marbles, white marbles and blue marbles.
* Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marbles one and the third one along is white marbles.
* Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house and Mr Cruz does not live at
either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
* Mr Danny lives in the fourth house, while the first house is not made from red marbles.
Who lives where, and what is their house made from ?
Know about location and home about each!
What were the clues?
To simplify the process, let's number the houses as 1,2,3,4 and separate clues given.
a. Mrs Jennifer's house is somewhere to the left of the green marbles one.
b. The third one along is white marbles.
c. Mrs Sharon owns a red marbles house
d. Mr Cruz does not live at either end.
e. Mr Cruz lives somewhere to the right of the blue marbles house.
f. Mr Danny lives in the fourth house
g. The first house is not made from red marbles.
As per clues (b) and (g), 1 and 3 aren't made of red marbles. Since Danny is living in 4 as per (f), the red house owned by Mrs. Sharon must be positioned at 2.
Since 2 is already occupied, as per (d), Mr. Cruz must be living at number 3 which is of white marbles according to (b).
According to (a), 4 must be green marbles since otherwise Jennifer wouldn't be somewhere at left. As per (f) this 4 th house is owned by Mr.Danny.
The only house left for Jennifer is blue positioned at 1.
To conclude,
Mrs Jennifer - blue marbles at Number 1
Mrs Sharon - red marbles at Number 2
Mr Cruz - white marbles at Number 3
Mr Danny - green marbles at Number 4
A horse and a camel were carrying boxes on their backs. The horse started complaining to the camel that his load is too heavy.
The camel replied 'Why are you complaining? If you gave me one of your
boxes I would have double what you have and if I give you one of my
boxes we two would have an even load.'
How many boxes do each of the animal (horse & camel) is carrying ?
Find here the load on each of them!
What was the talk?
Let's assume C be the number of boxes that camel is carrying and H be that being carried by horse.
As per first part of camel's statement i.e. if you gave me one of your boxes I would have double what you have
C + 1 = 2 (H - 1)
C + 1 = 2H -2
C = 2H - 3 ........(1)
Now in second part (i.e.if I give you one of my boxes we two would have an even load) of camel's statement suggests,
C - 1 = H + 1
C = H + 2
Putting (1) in above,
2H - 3 = H + 2
H = 5
Again putting this value in (1) gives,
C = 2*5 - 3 = 10 - 3 = 7
C = 7.
Horse is carrying 5 boxes and the camel is carrying 7 boxes.
