LOGIC+PROBLEMS

=__Shopping__= ====Nina, Kelly, Ronni, Emily, Lily, and Jessica go shopping. Each girl goes to either Target, the Sports store, Aeropostale, Walmart, BlockBuster, or Gamestop. Each girl has either a budget of $20-$30, $30-$40, $40-$50, $50-$60, $60-$70, or $70-$80. Try to match each girl with a store and price range.==== =__Clues__=

3. Jessica is an athelete, so she goes to the sports store. She bought sneakers that cost between $50 and $60.
=not yet completed= = Problem 11: Leaf collections = // Kelly, Lara, Marla, and Neil are students in Miss Hanson's fifth grade class. They are putting together a leaf collection as part of their science unit. Each student has a new leaf--oak, sycamore, catalpa, dogwood--to add to the collection. Rake through the clues to determine who brought what. //

1. Kelly is taller than the person with the sycamore leaf and the person with the catalpa leaf.

2. The girl with the oak leaf is seated behind Kelly.

3. Lara and the person with the oak leaf always eat lunch together.

4. The person with the sycamore leaf lives next door to Neil.

= = = Problem 18: Ice Cream World = After school, Stephanie, Byron, and Natasha went to Ice Cream World and ordered a single-, a double-, and a triple-scoop cone. The flavors they chose were mocha fudge, butter pecan, and strawberry ripple. Now scoop up the clues and see if you can lick this problem. 1. The double-scoop was mocha fudge.

2. Stephanie loves strawberry ripple.

3. Byron had a larger cone than the girl with butter pecan.

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= Problem 19: Hat Day = //Once each year the students and faculty of Brownstown are permitted to wear their hats indoors. That day is Hat Day, and every type of hat imaginable is worn to school. Sean, Randolph, and Eric are fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders and are wearing a sombrero, a cowboy hat, and a beret. Don't flip your lid tracking down the owner of each hat.//

1. The boy wearing the huge sombrero tripped on the stairs, but was caught by Randolph and the boy in the beret before he hurt himself.

2. The boy in the cowboy hat was a grade higher than Sean and a grade lower than the boy in the beret.

= = = Problem 24: The Computer Club Committee =

// Phil, Jill, Zill, and Will belong to a school computer club. They formed a committee to design computer programs to help the English, math, social studies, and science teachers. Each of the students helped one teacher--Mr. Gill, Ms. Hill, Mr. Pill, or Ms. Dill. The teachers taught in rooms 7, 12, 14, and 19. Match each computer whiz to the teacher, subject, and room number. //

1. WIll had never met Ms. Hill, or Mr. GIll, but he knew the science and English teachers. He helped one of the teachers he knew.

2. Zill did not help the English teacher in room 14, or the teacher in room 12.

3. Phil worked with the math teacher in room 7.

4. Ms. Dill, in room 14, did not teach science.

5. Mr. Pill did not teach math or social studies.

6. Jill had known Ms. Hill a long time, and enjoyed helping her with the computer program.

Source:Digging into Logic, by Beverly Post and Sandra Eads (1987