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A problem from Joseph Madachy’s Mathematics on Vacation (1966): If these statements are all true, what can we deduce about Major Perkins?

  1. Only bleary-eyed military men ever try to shave with a toothbrush.
  2. No bleary-eyed military men are at all musical.
  3. Men who never try to shave with a toothbrush never play golf.
  4. Major Perkins plays the tuba on Wednesdays.
  5. Only musical people who are golfers forget to change their socks.
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