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Corning Community College

CSCS2330 Discrete Structures

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Project: 5x5 LOGIC PUZZLE - WEEKLY PUZZLE FUN (wpf1)

Objective

To apply your skills in the solving of a logic puzzle.

Puzzle Backstory

The Flint Natural History Museum features a number of articulated woolly mammoth skeletons, each of which has been given a different name by local schoolchildren. Using only the clues below, match each mammoth to its estimated age and height, and determine where its skeleton was originally found.

Puzzle

Clues

  1. Of the mammoth believed to be 140,000 years old and the mammoth that was 8.9 ft tall, one was named “Peanut” and the other was unearthed in Alaska.
  2. “Snuffles” was either the animal found in Alaska or the mammoth believed to be 230,000 years old.
  3. “Ellie” isn't believed to be 140,000 years old.
  4. “Thumper” wasn't exactly 9.3 ft tall.
  5. The mammoth that was 8.9 ft tall lived 30,000 years after the mammoth that was 8.1 ft tall.
  6. The mammoth believed to be 110,000 years old and the mammoth found in Michigan were different animals.
  7. The mammoth believed to be 170,000 years old wasn't found in Michigan.
  8. The animal that was 8.2 ft tall wasn't found in Saskatchewan.
  9. The animal that was 7.8 ft tall lived 60,000 years after “Snuffles”.
  10. “Ellie” isn't believed to be 110,000 years old.
  11. The animal that was 8.9 ft tall was unearthed in Greenland.
  12. The mammoth that was 9.3 ft tall was unearthed in Alaska.

Submission

To submit this weekly puzzle, simply run the submit line below; a submit-time questionnaire will collect your puzzle results.

Submit Tool Usage

When you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:

lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$ submit discrete wpf1
Submitting discrete project "wpf1":

SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED
lab46:~/src/discrete/wpf$