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crook

@crook-0PFkJv • Oct 26, 2024

Oct 26, 2024

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Assume that each statement is either true or false. What is the
unknown (whole) number from the following possibly
false statements:

At least one of the last two statements in this list is true.
This is either the first true or the first false statement in the list.
There exist three consecutive false statements.
The difference beween the numbers of the last true statement and the first true statement is a factor of the unknown number.
The sum of the numbers of the true statements is the unknown number.
This is not the last true statement.
Each true statement's number is a factor of the unknown number.
The unknown number equals the percentage of these statements which are true.
The number of different factors which the unknown number has (excluding 1 and itself) is more than the sum of the numbers of the true statements.
There are no three cosecutive true statements.

What is the number? 😉

-Crook-

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integratdbrains

@integratdbrains-8bmazm • Jun 19, 2006

God forgive me for i cannot answer crooks question!! 😉😀😁😁

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aditi

@aditi-YUhZ1S • Aug 4, 2006

plz provide some clue..

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crook

@crook-0PFkJv • Aug 4, 2006

I don't have a clue 😔

Try please

Crook

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aashima

@aashima-eO93l9 • Aug 6, 2006

ahh...

goshhhhhhhh, i am happy enough that i could reach till the end of question!!! answer pleez.

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aditi

@aditi-YUhZ1S • Oct 25, 2006

plz give the answer crook
a long time has passed away..

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Jerry

@jerry-5wPKU7 • Oct 25, 2006

By 2, either way 1 must be false, and then so must both 9 and 10.

6, if false, says "This is the last true statement", which gives a paradox, thus
6 must be true, and so must 7 and/or 8.

7 and 8 cannot both be true, as the number had to be a multiple of 6,7,8 , that is a multiple of 168 (by 7), and less than 100 (by 8)

If 8 is false, then 3 is true (8,9,10 is false), if 8 is true, then 3 is false (3 cannot be true when both 6 and 8 are true, then there are no three consecutive statements left).

So we have either
A) F X F X X T F T F F or B) F X T X X T T F F F

In A), 4 and 5 must be true (by false 10), and 2 may be true or false. So by 5 the number shall be either 27 (2+3+4+5+6+7) or 25 (3+4+5+6+7). None of these can fulfill 8, though, so A) is out leaving us with B)

Now, (by 7) 3,6 and 7 are factors, the number must be a multiple of 42, as 2+3+4+5+6+7=27, 5 must be false.

By false 10, 2 and 4 must be true, that is 5 shall be a multiple of the number. Now the number must be a multiple of 2,3,4,5,6 and 7, that is a multiple of 3*4*5*7=420. 420 has 22 different factors

(2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,14,15,20,21,28,30,35,42,60,70,84,105,140,210) and the sum 2+3+4+6+7 = 22, so the only multiple of 420 that fulfills false 9 is 420.

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xheavenlyx

@xheavenlyx-CbvN62 • Oct 28, 2006

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come again?

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edie4someone

@edie4someone-XepXHi • Jul 17, 2007

do people in this thread have real lives?

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crook

@crook-0PFkJv • Jul 17, 2007

edie4someonedo people in this thread have real lives?
You still doubt? 😉

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xheavenlyx

@xheavenlyx-CbvN62 • Jul 21, 2007

Jerryblah... yak yak....blah blah blaah..

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By false 10, 2 and 4 must be true, that is 5 shall be a multiple of the number. Now the number must be a multiple of 2,3,4,5,6 and 7, that is a multiple of 3*4*5*7=420. 420 has 22 different factors

(2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,14,15,20,21,28,30,35,42,60,70,84,105,140,210) and the sum 2+3+4+6+7 = 22, so the only multiple of 420 that fulfills false 9 is 420.
So is Jerry correct????

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deepesh1

@deepesh1-KgzPqs • Sep 26, 2012

42??

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Jeffrey Arulraj

@jeffrey-xA7lUP • Sep 26, 2012

What in the world is the answer

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deepesh1

@deepesh1-KgzPqs • Sep 26, 2012

Only crook can tell!!

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rahul69

@rahul69-97fAOs • Sep 29, 2012

Is the answer 5040..😳, I think 1,8,9,10 were false...

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Saandeep Sreerambatla

@saandeep-sreerambatla-hWHU1M • Sep 30, 2012

This is a age old thread! But the question is very good!

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