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One person says: “I’m a liar.” Is he a native of the island of knights and liars?

15 points are placed inside a \(4 \times 4\) square. Prove that it is possible to cut a unit square out of the \(4 \times 4\) square that does not contain any points.

On an island, there are knights who always tell the truth, and liars who always lie. What question would you need to ask the islander to find out if he has a crocodile at home?

Elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes. In all zoos where there are elephants and rhinoceroses, there are no giraffes. In all zoos where there are rhinoceroses and there are no giraffes, there are elephants. Finally, in all zoos where there are elephants and giraffes, there are also rhinoceroses. Could there be a zoo in which there are elephants, but there are no giraffes and no rhinoceroses?

Several natives of an island met up (each either a liar or a knight), and everyone said to everyone else: “You are all liars.” How many knights were there among them?

The seller with weights. With four weights the seller can weigh any integer number of kilograms, from 1 to 40 inclusive. The total mass of the weights is 40 kg. What are the weights available to the seller?

We are looking for the correct statement. In a notebook one hundred statements are written:

1) There is exactly one false statement in this notebook.

2) There are exactly two false statements in this notebook.

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100) There are exactly one hundred false statements in this notebook.

Which of these statements is true, if it is known that only one is true?

Solve the rebus \(AC \times CC \times K = 2002\) (different letters correspond to different integers and vice versa).

Can the equality \(K \times O \times T\) = \(U \times W \times E \times H \times S \times L\) be true if instead of the letters in it we substitute integers from 1 to 9 (different letters correspond to different numbers)?

Rebus. Solve the numerical rebus \(AAAA-BBB + SS-K = 1234\) (different letters correspond to different numbers, but the same letters each time correspond to the same numbers)