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suman babu

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Feb 21, 2011, 1:52:33 AM2/21/11
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Triplet Brothers

There are 3 triplet brothers. They look identical. The oldest is Karan, he always tells the truth. The second is Shankar, he always tells a lie. The third is Ajay, he either tells the truth or a lie.

Poja went to visit them one day. She was wondering who was who. So she asked each person a question.

He asked the one who was sitting on the left: "Who is the guy sitting in the middle?". The answer was "He is Karan."
He asked the one who was sitting in the middle: "What is your name?". The answer was "I am Ajay."
He asked the one who was sitting on the right: "What is the guy sitting in the middle?". The answer was "He is Shankar."

Poja got really confused. Basically, he asked 3 same questions, but he got 3 different answers. Would you find out who is who for Poja?

Rekha humble

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Feb 21, 2011, 4:36:32 AM2/21/11
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Ajay(left)  Shankar(middle)  Karan(right)

mallikarjun raju

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Feb 21, 2011, 4:46:45 AM2/21/11
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 1 st person:ajay
2 nd person:shankar
3 rd person:karan
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Feb 21, 2011, 9:03:56 AM2/21/11
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He asked the one who was sitting on the left: "Who is the guy sitting in the middle?". The answer was "He is Karan."
He asked the one who was sitting in the middle: "What is your name?". The answer was "I am Ajay."
He asked the one who was sitting on the right: "What is the guy sitting in the middle?". The answer was "He is Shankar."

ANS: The sequence in which Triplet brothers sitting is AJAY, SHANKAR and KARAN

Explanation: Since left bro' says the middle one is karan and by the information we have, we know that karan always tells the truth, but middle person is saying that he is ajay. Thus there is contradiction. So karan is not in the middle. similarly we can eliminate the left side place for karan and thus karan should at the right side..
Now karan (right bro') says the middle on is shankar (karan will tell truth only)
and the remaining one is ajay and he is the one sitting left side (he said the middle one is karan..a lie na.) waste fellow e sari abaddam cheppadu.

I hope u got the explanation (konchem ekkuva aindi kada..:))
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