Math 2000 Assignment 3

Spring 1999

Due February 18, 1999


1. Please be sure you have read Units 2A, 2B, and 2C of the text all dealing with statistical studies. Unit 2D is related, interesting, but optional. Actually Unit 2E, dealing with causality, is also important, particularly if you are philosophically inclined. But we will have to skip it.

2. Please do the following problems from the text.

Just For Fun

The House Puzzle


1. There are five houses in a row, each of a different color, each inhabited by people of different nationalities with different pets, drinks and sports.
2. The American lives in the red house.
3. The Spaniard owns a dog.
4. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
5. The Ukrainian drinks tea.
6. The green house is immediately to the right of the white house.
7. The soccer player owns snails.
8. The polo player lives in the yellow house.
9. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The person who skis lives next to the person with the fox.
12. The polo player lives in the house next to the house where the horse is kept.
13. The hiker drinks orange juice.
14. The Japanese surfs.
15. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

QUESTIONS: Who drinks water? Who owns the zebra?