A Father’s Day logic problem.

Directions for Logic Problem (borrowed from the LSAT)

The question below is based on a brief premise and a set of rules. In answering the question, you might find it helpful to draw rough diagrams.

Premise: Dan forgot limes for the peach and poblano salsa he intends to make to liven up an otherwise blah halibut steak. The salsa is crap without lime juice. Dan's two children, ages 5 and 3, love going to one of two nearby grocery stores, Sudbury Farms and Whole Foods, when the sun is at 20 degrees Virgo and Saturn is moving towards Gemini. However, if the four of pentacles is in the first position of the Celtic cross, Dan's children despise going to these stores with every fiber of their stubborn little beings. Additionally, if the haruspex divines the elk entrails to spell favorable southeast winds, whatever the first child wants the second child will automatically decide he does not want.

Question: If Dan’s salsa is not going to be crap, what should Dan do?

Rules: Please keep in mind the following additional conditions:

1. Sudbury Farms on Boston Post Road has a number of shopping carts the size of yachts. Approximately half of them resemble police cruisers, while the other half resemble fire trucks. While Dan likes having any excuse to immobilize his children, and Dan's children generally like pretending they are first responders, on odd numbered days child A prefers to be a police officer, while child B likes to be a fireman. About 25 percent of the time when child A and child B get into a heated dispute over which type of first responder they prefer to imitate, Dan marches them right back to the car.

2. Whole Foods on Boston Post Road at one time featured a single shopping cart in the form of a fire truck. Assuming the total number of children at Whole Foods wishing to imitate firemen on a summer Tuesday at 4 p.m. to be 20, Dan's children had about a 10 percent chance of securing the sole fire truck shopping cart. Dan's children therefore used to greet the prospect of going to Whole Foods on Boston Post Road with a mixture of anticipation and dread, owing to their conflicted associations with the place, deriving from the ratio of the total number of times they secured the single fire truck shopping cart to the total number of times they did not. However, at some point in the last year, the fire truck shopping cart "broke an axle" and Whole Foods has been slow about replacing it. Dan’s children haven't fixed on a single response to the absence of the fire truck shopping cart. Instead, their range of responses is wide and every response is vocalized in the Whole Foods parking lot at maximum volume.

Tags: bergman, kids, maurice sendak, whole foods

Dan Chiasson is an English professor at Wellesley. His third book of poetry, WHERE'S THE MOON, THERE'S THE MOON, will soon be published.

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