During the summer, Heidi earned money by working for four neighbors, doing a different job for each. Given the following information:

1. Zach hired Heidi to walk his dogs.
   
   
2. Either Angelica or Maurice lives at #141.
   
   
3. Raquel lives two houses east of the person who employed Heidi as a babysitter.
   
   
4. The neighbor who lives at #139 and the person who hired Heidi to do housecleaning are of opposite genders.
   
   
5. It's not the person who hired Heidi to do gardening that lives in the easternmost house, #143.
   
   
6. All the neighbors live in a row on the same side of the street.
   
   

Find each neighbor's name, house number, and the job that Heidi did for each.

The usual house numbering system in most parts of the world is odd on one side of the street and even on the other side, and often sequentially. As we are given three house numbers: #139, #141 and #143; and that #143 is at a directional extreme, we can make the educated guess that the fourth house number is west of #139 and is #137.

Zach and Maurice are names generally assigned only to males, while Angelica and Raquel are those assigned only to females.

With these two important pieces of information, and with the itemized clues given, the neighbor's name, house number and job performed by Heidi for each can be deduced as follows:

1. #137 - Zach - dog walking
2. #139 - Maurice - babysitting
3. #141 - Angelica - gardening
4. #143 - Raquel - housecleaning

Posted by Dej Mar on 2008-03-11 03:54:43