Mrs. Holmes and her pen theft investigation puzzle
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Mrs. Holmes is a primary school teacher and One of her students took her Pen. Mrs. Holmes has narrowed the suspects down to three students Anderson, Jim, and Sally. Each of these students gave these statements:
Anderson: I didn’t do it.
Jim: I didn’t do it.
Sally: Paige did it!
Mrs. Holmes knows that only one of the kids is telling the truth. Which one is telling the truth and who took the pen?
both anderson and jim statements can not be true at same time since 1 of 3 is true .both cannot be false as one student only took the pen so .one of them is saying truth and other is lying
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