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.

(In reply to my guess by Brian Affourtit)

Two things wrong with Brian's solution:

1) The person who lives in 143 is NOT the person who hired Heidi to garden (statement #5)
2) Raquel lives 2 houses EAST of the person who needed a babysitter (statement #3); since 143 is the easternmost (statement #5), your solution has Raquel living WEST of that person

Posted by Trevor Leitch on 2003-11-21 12:31:25