Truth always wins

Logic Level 1
  1. Exactly one statement on this list is false.
  2. Exactly two statements on this list are false.
  3. Exactly three statements on this list are false.
  4. Exactly four statements on this list are false.
  5. Exactly five statements on this list are false.
  6. Exactly six statements on this list are false.
  7. Exactly seven statements on this list are false.
  8. Exactly eight statements on this list are false.
  9. Exactly nine statements on this list are false.
  10. Exactly ten statements on this list are false.

How many statements from the above list are false?

0 1 2 3 6 7 8 9

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13 solutions

Daniel Liu
Jul 19, 2015

Note that no two statements in the list can be true at the same time. Therefore, either 9 statements or 10 statements are false. However, if 10 statements were all false, then the last statement would be true, contradiction. Thus, 9 statements were false. (The 9th statement is the only true one.)

I don't get it.

Josue Blanco Moreno - 4 years, 10 months ago

I'm still clueless about this._.)

Quest Underwood - 4 years, 8 months ago

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remember they all gave different statements. That means that 9 of them are lying.

Mxjd Ultimate - 1 week, 2 days ago

I was explaining my reasoning right because I picked 9 and I couldn't word it properly then I read yours and I am like "Thank you Daniel Liu, you have worded this perfectly" lol

Sasha Little - 4 years, 8 months ago

I DONT GET IIT!!!!!!!!(spamming keybord)

Sly Cats in West Texas Smith - 2 years, 5 months ago

Your solution is the best so far. Only if you had said in 2nd and 3rd line "either all are false or only one is true" then people would have probably understood it better.

Zahid Hussain - 1 year, 11 months ago

still wallowing in the murky lagoon of confusion

coolgirl ohiba - 1 year, 7 months ago

Let's say n equals the amount of statements in the list. The amount of statements that are FALSE will always be the quantity, (n-1). Thus, there are 10-1 statements that are false, or exactly 9.

DUVAL CARRANZA - 1 year ago

wow i was stumped for a second ;-;

Jessica Hernandez - 10 months, 1 week ago

This is really simple. The key to all logic questions is to run through all of the possible options. If 1 was true, that would mean that a lot of other statements are false, and so on. 9 is the only statement that makes sense. idk if this helped?

-your logic-loving 12-yr-old, Vivi

Vivi Grey - 5 months ago

did it the same way :)

Kyu Pitoon - 4 months, 1 week ago
Chew-Seong Cheong
Jul 20, 2015

Because all statements are different. It can only be one that is true and nine others are false, which is exactly the true statement.

The same way I did.

Akhash Raja Raam - 5 years, 4 months ago

I didn't understand Can you please explain it in different form ?

Gaurav Vaidya - 5 years, 10 months ago

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We note that all the 10 statements are different. If statement 3: "Exactly three statements of this list are false." is true, the other nine must be false, therefore, statement 3 is false. If you pick statement 7 to be true, the other nine must be false, and statement 7 is false. Whichever statement you choose, the only outcome is only one statement is true and nine, false. Therefore, statement 9 is the true statement.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 5 years, 10 months ago

Yup. But unfortunately, I misread the question as how many statements are not false. :)

A Former Brilliant Member - 3 years, 2 months ago
Richard Feynman
Jul 20, 2015

Because you want most of the statements false( explained after solution with the current method) you start from the highest. If you take 10 it contradicts itself so that cannot be used. Then if you see 9 it works because it says everything is false except it.

You start with the highest because it is easier to deduce otherwise statement 1 works but you might finalize it at that.

You can also develop a rule of thumb with this. if the statements are like this and N is the number of statements. Then N-1 will be the answer.

I am confused!!!

Wigdan Abd alrahman - 1 year, 2 months ago
Piero Sarti
Dec 24, 2017

There are too many cases in this question to solve it by sheer brute force.

Instead, notice that Statement 10 says that 10 statements are false and therefore, since this includes the whole list it cannot be as this would lead to a contradiction.

Since we know that Statement 10 is false, Statement 1 must therefore also be false as Statement 10 is already false and this would mean that other statements, which suggest that more than 1 statement is false, must be true. This would lead to a contradiction.

Now that we know that 2 statements are definitely false, Statement 2 must therefore also be false. We can prove this with the same method with which we proved that Statement 1 is false.

Similarly, we can also use this method to prove that statements 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are all false. When we get to Statement 9 however, since 9 statements are definitely false and Statement 9 is the only statement remaining, Statement 9 is true and therefore 9 statements are false.

Thomas Mason
Jan 24, 2017

No two of these statements can be the answer. They would all contradict each other, and therefore 1 is true. Number 9 is true because if 10 was true, then it would be false, and so on. Only 9 is true because contradictions.

Chris Beagley
Nov 18, 2016

If there are 10 statements, the only statement that can be true is the one that considers the total number of statements - 1 (correct statement).

Therefore, with 10 statements 9 must be false.

Bent. O. Jensen
Oct 27, 2015

If you define all statements to be false, even number 9 and 10, the answer is 10. If you define a statement as false, it does not matter that your logic tells you that it is true.

An example is: "This sentence is false" must be defined as false. This is the only way we can solve the problem. This show us that definition beats the logic of a statement.

So there is two solutions, 9 and 10.

if u say "10.Exactly ten statements on this list are false." is also a right answer then can u tell me which are the 10 false statements?

Anand Pj - 5 years, 7 months ago

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Im waiting....

JP Hemmibocker - 3 years, 3 months ago
Mxjd Ultimate
Jun 4, 2021

All gave different answers. So one of them is telling the truth. it is 9 because there are 9 others that are false. more than one can't be false.

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JK

If all the statement were true, they would contradict each other thus the can't all be true. All of them have to be false except one so there has to be nine false statements, making the 9th one true and all the rest false.

Therefore, 9 statements are false.

Vishruth K
Mar 30, 2021

The ninth statement must be true if nine are false, and it doesn't lead to any contradictions. Any other number of false statements leads to contradictions, so the answer is 9 .

Bardia Ebadian
Jan 3, 2021

we know that statement 10 is false and the other statements cannot be true at the same time because each one says a diffrent number but the number of false statements cannot be ten because then statement 10 would be true which we proved cannot be so there are 9 false statements.

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Hailey Heckert
May 15, 2020

Two statements cannot be true at the same time because they will cancell each other out. If all 10 statements were false, the last one would be true cancelling it out. Therefore 9 statements were false ( Only #9 was true).

Désire Désire
Dec 26, 2018

If one of these are correct, then, 10-1=9 are the false statements given.

You read my mind.

Mai H - 1 year ago

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