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4. Three political prisoners are litical prisoners are offered a chance to be released from a third world country's prison system. are shown 3 red hats and 2 black hats and then they are blindfolded. One of the hats is placed on un persons head. One by one, the blindfolds will be removed and each prisoner will be able to see the Ull the other two prisoners, but not the hat they are wearing. They must answer either I dont know Villamme the color of their hat. If any one of the three can correctly name the color of their hat and explain why they are sure of their answer, all three will be deported. Otherwise, all three will be executed! The Trst person, when the blindfold is removed answers, "I don't know". The second answers the same way. The third person's blindfold is removed, and only then do the other two prisons realize that the third man Is blind! However, in the manner of all fairy tales, the third man correctly names the color of the hat he is wearing, explains in impeccable logic how he knew, and all three live happily ever after. Please name the color of the third man's hat and explain why it must be this color. 5. Eustace has 4 friends whose occupations are butcher, baker, tailor, carpenter and whose names are Mr. Butcher, Mr. Baker, Mr. Tailor, and Mr. Carpenter, though their names do not correspond to their occupations. Each man has a son and a daughter, but no son practices the same trade as his father, nor does any practice a trade corresponding to his own last name. Each son marries a daughter who maiden name does not suggest her husband's or his father's trade. Each girl changes her last initial when she marries. The baker's son married Miss Butcher. Mr. Butcher, Sr. is not a baker. The trade of Mr. Carpenter, Sr. is the same as young Mrs. Butcher's maiden name. Please tell me the trade of each of the 8 men and tell me the maiden name's of the girls that each son married. Additional problem sets will be assigned.

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