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Gender and Occupation (Posted on 2012-10-22) Difficulty: 2 of 5
A member of a medical staff makes the following statements each of which is truthful:
  1. The hospital staff consists of sixteen doctors and nurses, including me.
  2. The following facts apply to the staff members; whether you include me or not does not make any difference. The staff consists of:
    • More nurses than doctors.
    • More male doctors than male nurses.
    • More male nurses than female nurses.
    • At least one female doctor.
What is the gender and occupation of the speaker?

No Solution Yet Submitted by K Sengupta    
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re: spoiler | Comment 3 of 6 |
(In reply to spoiler by xdog)

If the speaker were the only female doctor, then, when the speaker is excluded, the last statement in section 2 would no longer be true, but all those four statements are supposed to be true even if you exclude the speaker.
  Posted by Charlie on 2012-10-22 12:37:37

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