Find Mr Tan's Birthday with logic!

Logic Level 3

Ben and Mark are students of Mr Tan. Mr Tan's birthday is on N / M / 1970 N/M/1970 and both of them know that Mr Tan's birthday is one of these 10 10 dates:

4 / 3 / 1970 4/3/1970

4 / 6 / 1970 4/6/1970

1 / 9 / 1970 1/9/1970

1 / 12 / 1970 1/12/1970

5 / 3 / 1970 5/3/1970

7 / 6 / 1970 7/6/1970

5 / 9 / 1970 5/9/1970

2 / 12 / 1970 2/12/1970

8 / 3 / 1970 8/3/1970

8 / 12 / 1970 8/12/1970

Mr Tan tells Ben the value of M M and tells Marc the value of N N .

Then Mr Tan asks them: "Do you know when is my birthday?"

Ben says: "I don't know, but I can ensure that Mark doesn't know too."

Mark says: "Initially I don't know, but I know it now."

Ben says: "Oh! Then I know it too."

Base on the dialogue and the dates given, can you figure out which date is Mr Tan's Birthday?

Give your answer as M + 100 N M+100N

Assume Mark and Ben are amazing at their logic

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The answer is 109.

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1 solution

Julian Poon
Aug 19, 2014

The answer is 1/9

When Ben says he doesn't know and that Mark shouldn't be able to know, he is implying that if both the months and the dates have no repetition, it is not Mr Tan's birthday. Dates 7/6 and 2/12 eliminated. Since Ben is so sure that Mark doesn't know the date, the dates with the month 12 and the month 6 is eliminated. Then Mark says that he now knows what the date is. Since Mark knows the value of N, there should only be a unique value of N left, which eliminates 5/9, 5/3. This leaves us with 4/3, 1/9 and 8/3. Then Ben declares that he knows the date. Given that Ben knows the value of M, the value of M must be unique, which leaves us with the date 1/9 Therefore, the answer, 100 N + M = 109 100N+M=\boxed { 109 }

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Noel Lo - 5 years, 10 months ago

Same Way, @Julian Poon its a gem of a question.

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 7 months ago

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