Wendy’s parents had gotten several sets of reference books when their daughter Wendy entered Middle School, and several of her friends enjoy coming over to do homework. Just last Monday evening, after popping up some popcorn and fixing cold soft drinks, the five sat down around the family’s dining room table and Wendy noticed that each friend was taking advantage of a different type of reference book - an atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus,. Each was looking up information for a different class - Botany, Chemistry, English Composition, or Forensics. From the clues, determine the first name of each of Wendy’s friends (one is Heather), the reference material each was using, and the class each was doing an assignment for.
1. Dallas (who wasn’t doing an assignment for either Botany or English Composition) isn’t the friend who used the thesaurus.
2. The friend who was doing an assignment for English Composition (who wasn’t Amber) had found the information he or she needed in one of the books in the set of encyclopedias Wendy had.
3. Michael was doing some research for his Forensics class.
4. Amber didn’t use a thesaurus to find the information she needed for her assignment.
5. The atlas wasn’t the reference book used by Dallas.
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Five friends who grew up together found themselves alone this Thanksgiving, due to one reason or another. It seemed natural for them to decide to get together on Thanksgiving Day, each providing a different part of the meal (one person furnished a large platter of fresh vegetables). It was also natural for them to celebrate their birthdays on this day of thanksgiving, as each was born on a different date in November, exactly one week apart (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th) in the same year. In lieu of the traditional pies, they had ordered a large cake from a local bakery for the birthday part of their dinner. From the clues, determine each persons birth date and the part of the Thanksgiving meal each provided.
1. Tory’s birthday is exactly two weeks after Lisa’s birthday.
2. Neither Lisa nor Joyce (who didn’t furnish the turkey) furnished the oyster dressing.
3. Shelby isn’t the man who furnished the creamed corn casserole for the meal.
4. Faye, who furnished the scalloped potatoes, was born sometime later in the month that Tory and sometime earlier in the month than Joyce.
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| BIRTHDATE | FRIEND'S NAME | DISH PROVIDED |
A new addition of quintplexes on the city’s north side has recently been completed and a new tenant moved into each of the five apartments in one of the new quintplexes. Like most housing of this type (duplexes, triplexes, etc.), they are very much alike from the outside. The five new residents of this particular quintplex decided to add a little color to their new home for individuality. Each visited the local greenhouse and each bought one of five different types of Spring bulbs to plant along his or her walkway (crocus, daffodil, hyacinth, lilies, or tulips) and a different type of annual flower to plant in a window box near his or her front door (asters, marigolds, nasturtiums, rose moss, or vinca). From the clues, determine each residents name (two of whom are Mr. Deahl and Ms. Jackson), the type of Spring bulb each planted, and the type of each annual flower each planted.
1. No two individuals bought the same type of bulb or the same type of annual flower.
2. Neither Ms. Ensz (who didn’t plant nasturtiums or rose moss) nor Ms. Hopewell planted vinca in their window boxes.
3. Mr. Howard planted daffodils along the walkway leading from his front door.
4. One woman planted vinca in her window box, but isn’t the person who planted crocus along her walkway.
5. Ms. Ensz, who didn’t planted asters in her window box, didn’t plant either hyacinth or crocus along her walkway.
6. One person planted lilies along his or her walkway and rose moss in his or her window box, but this person was not Mrs. Hopewell.
7. The person who planted hyacinth and the person who planted asters are the same gender.
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| TENANT'S NAME | SPRING BULB | WINDOWBOX FLOWER | < /td>
Four friends go and play bingo every Friday night. Last Friday each of them bingoed on a different number (B-9, I-21, G-43, or O-72) while playing a different game - Big X, Bow Tie, Picture Frame, and Razzle Dazzle. Each player always used a dauber of a different color to mark the numbers called (one woman uses a pink dauber) and each was thrilled with their winnings - especially since none had to share with another person who also bingoed on that number! From the clues, determine each players first name (two are Carol and Phil), the color of dauber each uses, the number each bingoed on, and the game they were playing when each won.
1. Three of the four friends are Sue, the one who won on G-43, and the won who won when playing the Picture Frame game.
2. The one who bingoed on O-72 (who doesn’t use a blue dauber) isn’t the one who won while playing Razzle Dazzle.
3. Sue (who doesn’t use the purple dauber) wasn’t the woman who won playing the Big X game.
4. Ken always uses an orange dauber and he was thrilled when he won the Bow Tie game.
5. It wasn’t the player who bingoed on I-21 who uses a blue dauber.
6. The person who bingoed on B-9 played the Big X game.
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| PLAYER'S NAME | DAUBER COLOR | NUMBER WON ON | GAME WON ON |