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An island is inhabited by two types of people: truth-tellers and liars. The truth-tellers always speak the truth and the liars always lie. 25 of the island's inhabitants stood in a line. Each of them with the exception of the first person said: The person directly in front of me is a liar, while the person standing first in the line said: Everyone standing behind me is a liar. How many liars stood in the line?

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Answer:

Truth teller

Step-by-step explanation:

Arnie is most likely to be a liar in this case.

The response should satisfy the conditions in the statement.

The question is based on the logic. The guiding word is the conditional "if."

Logically, people at the island are either truth tellers or liars; it follows that Arnie is a truth teller and is an inhabitant of the island.

It is notable that each of them has some probability of being a truth-teller or a liar at some point.

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