Unit 12 · Multi-Step Conditional Reasoning
Five Houses Row — Who Lives on the Right End?
Lesson 16 of 30
About this lesson
Five houses, five people, five sports, five transports — and eight clues to untangle them. The secret is to start with the clues that give you exact positions, then use contradictions to eliminate wrong arrangements.
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Five houses stand together in a row. One person lives in each house; each person likes a different sport; they all use different forms of transport. We also know that:
- Mr Green likes tennis and lives next to Ms White, who is on the left end of the row and drives a van.
- Dr Grey uses a taxi.
- The person who likes badminton lives in the middle of the row.
- Miss Orange drives a car and doesn't like swimming.
- The person who likes swimming does not have a motorcycle.
- Mrs Black likes football; she lives next to Miss Orange and two spaces from Dr Grey.
- The person who rides a bicycle also likes football.
- The person who likes golf lives next to the person who likes badminton.
Using the information above, who lives in the last house on the right of the row?
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