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Cat Puzzle Solve the following puzzle The Joneses have four cats. The parents are Tiger and Boots, and the kittens are Sam and Sue Each cat insists on eating out of its own bowl. To complicate matters, each cat win eat only its own brand of cat food. The colors of the bowls are red, yellow, green, and blue. The different types of cat food are Whiskas, Friskies, Nine lives and Meow Mix Tiger will eat Meow Mix if and only if it is in a yellow bowl If Boots is to eat her food, then it must be in a yellow bowl Mrs. Jones knows that the label on the can containing Sam's food is the same color as his bowl. Boots eats Whiskas. Meow Mix and Nine lives are packaged m a brown paper bag. The color Sue’s bowl is green if and only if she eats Meow Mix. The label on the Friskies can is red. Match each cat with its food and the bowl of the correct color.
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