From: bodom@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Brian Odom)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
Subject: Logic Problem: How I Got Into College
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:06:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.Bu0KzA.FMr
Organization: Indiana University

How I got into college
Difficulty level: hard

Abe Froman, the guidance counselor, at Fillmore High, was proud to help 12 
senior students send their acceptance letters to colleges today.  Each student
will be attending a different college.  No two students received the same SAT
score.  From the information provided, determine the first and last names of
each student (one first name is Faith and one last name is Siebert), the 
college each will be attending (one is Cornell), and each student's SAT score
(1260, 1270, 1290, 1310, 1330, 1350, 1360, 1390, 1400, 1410, 1430, or 1440).


1. Lynda's score, while not the highest, was higher than the one earned by her
only boyfriend (the future Harvard student), whose score was higher than Ms.
Ingram's.

2. The one going to Ohio State earned a score exactly 100 points lower than 
the score earned by the one surnamed Farmer, who is neither the one who earned
a 1430 nor the one going to Carnegie Mellon.

3. Ms. Snyder and Donald have been dating for several years.  They chose 
schools in the same city--Donald is going to Carnegie Mellon and Ms. Snyder is
going to the University of Pittsburgh.  Ms. Snyder's score was 10 points higher
than Donald's.

4. The six women are Ms. Powell, the one who got a 1310, Paula, the one going 
to the University of Pittsburgh, the one going to Yale, and Ms. Long.

5. The six men are Mr. Rains, the one going to MIT, the one going to Harvard,
Donald, the one who got a 1260, and Rich Blake.

6. Cathy, whose score was one of the lowest 5, originally had considered going
to North Carolina, but the man who decided to go there had the highest score
of any of the men.

7. Alyssa, who wanted to stay close to home, is going to Fairfield University,
while her boyfriend is traveling the farthest away, to Stanford University.
Alyssa's SAT score was 30 points lower than her boyfriend's, and Ms. Powell
earned the only score that was numerically between theirs.

8. Ms. Ingram and Saul are going to Boston University and Purdue, in some 
order.  The one who is going to Purdue earned a score 10 points lower than the
one going to Boston University.

9. The highest score was earned by a woman, who was neither Tammi nor Ms. 
Quinn.

10. No woman had a score that was between that of Ms. Connell and the woman
whose score was 40 points lower than hers.

11. Louis's score was over 120 points lower than Nigel's.  Mr. Roth's score was
over 100 points lower than Ivan's.

12. Mr. Atkins, whose score was not the lowest, scored lower than Donald did.


The following chart will be most useful for solving this logic problem.
Hint: to save yourself from a few headaches, go ahead and write in all 
the SAT scores in ascending order before you begin that way you can see who
has a lower or higher score by simply looking at the position their name
falls in the chart.  Good luck!


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-- 
Brian T Odom