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Subject: Re: IQ question, off topic, but good minds here :-)

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 12:48:17 02/23/03

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On February 23, 2003 at 13:52:34, Anson T J wrote:

>If the color red was created by combining blue and green, and the color yellow
>was created by combining red and purple, then blue could be created by combining
>yellow and orange.
>
>Can you say if this statement is true or false with reasoning?

The structure of your sentence is interesting. You basically say:

red    = blue   + green
yellow = red    + purple
blue   = yellow + orange

If we take out all of the operators, we have:

red    blue   green
yellow red    purple
blue   yellow orange

If you take the first two colors in each row and combine them, you get the last
color on the row below it (with the last row wrapping around to the first row).

So, on the first row, you have red and blue as the first two colors, and that
makes up purple, which is the last on the row below it. Yellow and red make up
orange, and blue and yellow make up green.

So, you can say that it is true that there is some relationship or pattern
between your statements, but I'm not sure that you can say if it's "true" or not
with "reasoning" (unless I just did that).



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