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Lies, truth, and logic (Posted on 2017-02-09) Difficulty: 3 of 5
A,B,C,D & E- 5 persons of different ages - share the same birthday date.
Overheard at their joint birthday party:

A said to B: I'm nine years older than E
A said to B: Your age is exactly 70% greater than mine.
B said to C: E is younger than you.
C said to D: The difference between our ages is six years.
C said to A: I'm ten years older than you.
C said to A: B is younger than D.
B said to C: "The difference between your age and D is the same as the difference between D and E.
They were not always telling the truth.
Whenever one of them spoke to someone older, everything they said was true,- but when speaking to someone younger, everything they said was false.

and their ages were:

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON    
Rating: 1.0000 (1 votes)

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Hints/Tips re: Lots of solutions even between 20 and 40 SpoieP Comment 2 of 2 |
(In reply to Lots of solutions even between 20 and 40 by Charlie)

Ch

Please try to find a common feature in all your lines, justifying one unique answer:
Their ages were in the following order: 
answer Xyzwt follows.
The numbers were not strictly implied.

  Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2017-02-11 21:20:43
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