{"id":43,"date":"2020-02-03T19:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T19:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2020-10-16T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:08:52","slug":"who-is-the-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Who is the thief?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four burglary suspects, A, B, C, D were summoned to the court to face the judge. When the judge asked: &#8220;Who is the thief?&#8221;, each of the suspects answered as following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A: B is the thief.<br>B: C is the thief.<br>C: I am not the thief.<br>D: I am not the thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the fact that only one of the suspects was telling the truth and only one suspect committed the burglary, who is the thief? <a href=\"javascript:toggle_visibility('sol-who-is-the-thief');\">Click here for the solution.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"sol-who-is-the-thief\" name=\"sol-who-is-the-thief\" style=\"display:none\">\n<p><strong>Solution<\/strong> If A was telling the truth, then, B is the thief, and both C and D were also telling the truth. Since there was only one telling the truth, therefore, A was not telling the truth, and B is NOT the thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If B was telling the truth, then, C is the thief, and D was also telling the truth. Because it was not possible for both A and D telling the truth, therefore, C is NOT the thief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since neither B nor C is not the thief, either A or D is the thief. If A is the thief, both C and D were telling the truth, which was not possible. Therefore, D is the thief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four burglary suspects, A, B, C, D were summoned to the court to face the judge. When the judge asked: &#8220;Who is the thief?&#8221;, each of the suspects answered as following: A: B is the thief.B: C is the thief.C: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathfun4kids.com\/mlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}