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There is a basket full of hats. Three of them are red and two of them are blue. There are 3 men; Timothy, Imran and Jatin. Jatin is colour blind for both these colours. They each take a hat out of the basket and put it on their heads without seeing the hat they selected or the hats the other men selected. The men arrange themselves in such a manner so that Timothy can see Imran and Jatin's hats, Imran can see Jatin's hat and Jatin can't see anyone's hat. However, they can hear each other. Also, they do know the initial number of red and blue hats. Timothy is asked what colour his hat is and he says he doesn't know. Imran is asked the same question, and he also doesn't know. Finally, Jatin is asked the question, and he does know. What colour is his hat?

  1. Red

  2. Blue

  3. Red or blue as Jatin will see it

  4. Black, because colour blind people see dark colours as black

  5. Cannot be determined
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Explanation

The hat is red. If Timothy doesn't know his hat colour, then the other two men's hats cannot be both blue otherwise he would know his hat is red. When Imran doesn't know his hat colour either, that means Jatin's hat could not be blue otherwise Imran would have to know his hat was red to fulfill the information discovered through Timothy's answer.

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