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    The Viral Math/Logic Problem from Singapore

    I didn't see this posted anywhere, but I assume some of you have seen this.

    At first, the whole thing was cryptic to me, and the English is little off. But once I applied the same logic skills that I employ to deduce that JL is more concerned with being part of a scientific mean girl circlejerk rather than actually being right, I was able to solve the problem in a couple minutes.

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    Post your answer to the problem below and how you figured it out.

    I found an explanation by a mathematician on the BBC website, and it lined up with what I deduced.
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    Originally posted by Color Me Badd Fan View Post
    I didn't see this posted anywhere, but I assume some of you have seen this.

    At first, the whole thing was cryptic to me, and the English is little off. But once I applied the same logic skills that I employ to deduce that JL is more concerned with being part of a scientific mean girl circlejerk rather than actually being right, I was able to solve the problem in a couple minutes.

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    Post your answer to the problem below and how you figured it out.

    I found an explanation by a mathematician on the BBC website, and it lined up with what I deduced.
    I saw this thing posted, but the part that says "Cheryl then tells Albert and Bernard separately the month and the day of her birthday respectively" was clipped out. Needless to say, that is pretty crucial information, and without that it was pretty nonsensical. With that information, it is essentially a low-level analytical reasoning LSAT question.
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      Aug 17

      Edit:

      July 16
      Last edited by snowcat; 04-16-2015, 06:32 PM.
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      • #4
        At the risk of failing a low-level LSAT question, I'll go with June 17.
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        • #5
          July 16

          Edit: what kind of friend doesn't just tell you their birthday. Seriously, I'd be done being friends with Cheryl if she pulled this crap on me. Screw you! I don't care when your birthday is!
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          • #6
            All right, I'll bite with the explanation.
            Albert knows that Bernard doesn't know, i.e., the day is not enough information to know the actual birthday. So the month Albert was told does not have a unique day - July or August.
            This piece of information tells Bernard the proper month, so he must have been told a date that is not shared by July and August, but is shared by May or June - 15, 16, or 17.
            So if this information is sufficient to tell Albert what the birthday is, he must have been told the month with only one of these three days.
            July 16.
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            • #7
              Bo Diddley's married to Cheryl?

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