One of Mr. Horton, his wife, their son, and Mr. Horton’s mother is a doctor and another is a lawyer.
a) If the doctor is younger than the lawyer, then the doctor and the lawyer are not blood relatives.
b) If the doctor is a woman, then the doctor and the lawyer are blood relatives.
c) If the lawyer is a man, then the doctor is a man. Whose occupation you know?
1. Mr. Horton: he is the doctor
2. Mr. Horton’s son: she is the lawyer
3. Mr. Horton: he is the doctor
4. Mr. Horton’s mother: she is the doctor
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1.) case a :
Mr. Horton's wife is younger than his mother and they are not blood relatives.
In this case Mr. Horton's wife is a doctor and Mr. Horton's mother is the lawyer.
2.) Case b :
There are two women who have blood relations with two men that is. Mr Horton's wife and her son and Mr. Horton's mother and her son and in this case the lawyer could be Mr. Horton's or his son and the doctor could be Mr. Horton's mother or his wife.
3.) Case c.
If the lawyer is a man then the doctor is a man. That is if Mr Horton is a lawyer his son will be a doctor or either way.
From the explanations in b we can say Mr. Horton's mother is the doctor.
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