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A book has 500 pages: The 1st page says "Exactly 1 page in this book is false."...........Can any of the pages be true?

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A book has 500 pages:

The 1st page says "Exactly 1 page in this book is false."
The 2nd page says "Exactly 2 pages in this book are false."
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The 500th page says "Exactly 500 pages in this book are false."
Can any of the pages be true?

posted Dec 4, 2019 by Anil Chaurasiya

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One of them has to be true and this is page 499, all the rest are false

answer Dec 4, 2019 by Hanifa Mammadov



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