Three reporters were discussing the hockey results. The TV reporter said "Either Brazil won gold, or Chile won silver, but not both." The radio reporter similarly started to say "Either Argentine won silver, or Chile won …", but a sudden noise cut him off.
The press reporter, who was lucky enough to hear the complete sentence, could reason out the final order of the three countries. What was it?
(In reply to
Solution by Trevor Leitch)
Trevor,
I assume you meant Chile won bronze (not silver) in your answer.
The only disagreement I have with your analysis, is that you wrote:
Had it been the former, the third reporter would have been unable to distinguish between options ACB and BAC.
Assuming that you mean the former is: "Either Argentine won Silver or Chile won Bronze, but not both".
Then BOTH of these are ruled out... Again, you wrote both are possible and can't be distinguished.
The rest of your analysis holds.
--- SK
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