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Originally Posted by DoubleF

http://www.theguardian.com/science/a...-maths-problem

Thank goodness for the internet age and I don't have to solve it myself.

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It looks like July 16 and August 17 are both legit based on your assumptions. (See comments + article)

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Again, no. Based on what was said, and the order it was said, August 17th is not an answer. Getting August 17th requires you to make an assumption that something was said before the first statement in the actual question, so August 17th is wrong.

The point of a logic question is that you do not/cannot make assumptions to get the answer, you can only use the information at hand to determine what is/can or isn't/cannot be correct/true.

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