The Cat in the Hat Puzzle - Answer
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The Cat in the Hat puzzle - Answer
Age group: 6-12 years old
The question was:
Three hats have a sentence written on each of them:
Hat 1: The cat is in this hat
Hat 2: The cat is not in this hat
Hat 3: The cat is not in hat 1
If only one of these statements is correct, which hat is the cat in?
A) Hat 1
B) Hat 2
C) Hat 3
D) None of the hats
E) Not enough information
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Now for the answer!
Let us take a step by step approach to solving this brain teaser.
Consider case 1:
The cat is in hat 1 -
Then for the statements given:
The cat is in this hat - becomes true
The cat is not in this hat - becomes true
The cat is not in hat 1 - becomes false
The cat is in this hat - becomes false
The cat is not in this hat - becomes false
The cat is not in hat 1 - becomes true
We observe that only 1 statement is true, which is as per the given condition. Thus, the cat is in hat 2.
We can now stop as we have arrived at the correct answer.
Thus, the correct answer is :
B) Hat 2
There are many ways to solve this puzzle, do feel free to share your own way of solving this in the comments :)
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