2007/08 AHSMC Part 1 Problem 14
Problem 14 of 16
Five students took part in a contest consisting of six true-or-false questions. Student gave the answer T to question if and only if . The total number of incorrect answers is or , and there are more incorrect answers of T than incorrect answers of F. The student who has both an incorrect answer of T and an incorrect answer of F is
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The number of incorrect answers for each of questions and is or . The number of incorrect answers for each of questions and is or . The number of incorrect answers for each of questions and is or . A total of incorrect answers can only be made up from . However, we would have an equal number of incorrect answers of T and incorrect answers of F. Hence the total must be , and it can be made up from either or . However, the latter yields more incorrect answers of F than incorrect answers of T. It follows that the correct answers for the six questions are F, F, F, T, F and T respectively. Only student has both an incorrect answer of T (for question ) and an incorrect answer of F (for question ). The answer is (D).