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Drew and Mohammad come back (Posted on 2003-04-30) Difficulty: 1 of 5
If two people are of the same type,then they are either both knights or both liars. If they are of different types,then one is a knight and one is a liar. Now, suppose Drew and Mohammad say the following.

Drew: We are of the same type.
Mohammad: We are of different types.

Now, what are each?

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Solution Solution | Comment 2 of 27 |
Case 1: Both Drew and Mohammad are Liars. Then Drew obviously cannot say: "We are of the same type". So, both of them are not Liars.

Case 2: Both Drew and Mohammad are Truth Tellers.
In that case Mohammad cannot say: " We are of different types". So, both of them are not Truth Tellers.

Case 3: Drew is a Truth Teller and Mohammad is a Liar. Then Mohammad cannot say: "We are of different types". So, this is also not a possibility.

Case 4: Drew is a Liar and Mohammad is a Truth Teller. It is in this case only when Drew can say: " We are of the same type" and Mohammad can say: " We are of different types".

So, this is what each of them is:
Drew: LIAR
Mohammad: Truth Teller

  Posted by Ravi Raja on 2003-04-30 05:03:30
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