Three baskets sit on the porch: one filled with corn, one with gourds, and one with apples. Each basket has a weight tag that is either entirely correct or entirely wrong. - The corn basket tag says '10 lbs'. - The gourds basket tag says '15 lbs'. - The apples basket tag says '20 lbs'. The actual weights are 10 lbs, 15 lbs, and 20 lbs, but no basket has the weight stated on its tag. If the corn basket actually weighs 20 lbs, what is the actual weight of the apples basket?
15 lbs
The corn basket tag says 10 lbs, but it actually weighs 20 lbs (so its tag is wrong). Since no basket has the weight stated on its tag, the available weights are 10, 15, and 20. Corn is 20. The remaining actual weights are 10 and 15. The gourds tag says 15 lbs. Since gourds cannot weigh 15 lbs (no tag can be correct), gourds must weigh 10 lbs. That leaves 15 lbs for the apples basket.
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Logic riddles give you a few facts and ask what must be true. List what you know, cross out what cannot be, and see what is left.
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