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There are 5 houses in a row and in 5 different colors.In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet.No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet.-The Brit lives in a red house-The Swede keeps dogs-The Dane drinks tea -The green house is on the left of the white house-The green house owner drink coffee -The person who plays polo rears birds-The owner of the yellow house plays hockey-The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk-The Norwegian lives in the first house -The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats -The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey-The man who plays billards drinks beer -The German plays soccer-The Norwegian lives next to the blue house -The man who plays baseball has a neighbor who drinks waterName the Person, Sport, Nationality, Color, Beverage, and Pet for each house

A) Norwegian, Hockey, Brit, Yellow, Water, Cats
B) Dane, Baseball, German, Red, Tea, Birds
C) Swede, Billiards, Norwegian, Blue, Coffee, Horses
D) Brit, Polo, Dane, Green, Milk, Bird

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Final answer:

The correct answer is option C) Swede, Billiards, Norwegian, Blue, Coffee, Horses.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer is option C) Swede, Billiards, Norwegian, Blue, Coffee, Horses.

To solve this problem, we need to analyze all the given clues and make deductions based on them. Here is the step-by-step solution:

  1. The Norwegian lives in the first house. Therefore, the first house is blue, and the Norwegian plays hockey.
  2. The green house is on the left of the white house. Therefore, the second house is green and the fifth house is white.
  3. The green house owner drinks coffee. Therefore, the owner of the second house drinks coffee.
  4. The British person lives in a red house. Therefore, the person in the third house is British and the house is red.
  5. The Swede keeps dogs. Therefore, the Swede lives in the second house and keeps dogs.
  6. The Dane drinks tea. Therefore, the Dane lives in the third house and drinks tea.
  7. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk. Therefore, the person in the fourth house drinks milk.
  8. The person who plays polo rears birds. Therefore, the person who plays polo lives in the fifth house and rears birds.
  9. The person who plays baseball has a neighbor who drinks water. Therefore, the person who plays baseball lives next to the person in the fourth house, and the person in the fourth house drinks water.
  10. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey. Therefore, the person who keeps horses lives in the fourth house, and the person who plays hockey lives in the fifth house.
  11. The man who plays billiards drinks beer. Therefore, the person who plays billiards lives in the third house, and the person in the third house drinks beer.
  12. The German plays soccer. Therefore, the German lives in the second house and plays soccer.
  13. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. Therefore, the Norwegian lives in the first house, and the blue house is next to the first house.

Based on these deductions, we can conclude that in option C) the person in the first house is the Norwegian who plays hockey, the person in the second house is the Swede who plays billiards, the person in the third house is the German who plays soccer, the person in the fourth house is the Dane who drinks tea, and the person in the fifth house is the Brit who plays polo. The colors of the houses are blue, yellow, red, green, and white respectively. The beverages of the people in the houses are water, coffee, beer, tea, and milk respectively. And the pets are horses, dogs, birds, fish, and cats respectively.

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