A pet owner is taking three of her pets to the vet: one dog, one cat, and one mo

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A pet owner is taking three of her pets to the vet: one dog, one cat, and one mouse. She was able to put all of them in her car and is now ready to take them to the vet's office. The pet owner has suffered a terrible accident and only has one hand. Thus she can only carry one of her pets at a time. If she leaves the dog and the cat in the car, the dog will attack the cat. If she leaves the mouse and the cat in the car, the cat will eat the mouse. On the other hand, the dog and the mouse will leave each other be. How can this pet owner bring all three animals to the vet's office? Represent your answer with an FSA and justify your answer.

Explanation / Answer

Hi,

Here is the answer to this puzzle:

Best way is to follow below mentioned steps to make sure that pet owner bring all three animals to the vet's office:

1. Firstly Pet owner can take Cat & leave at the office. So in car there will not be any problem as Dog & Mouse will only be there.

2. Now pet owner will come back & take the Mouse to the office. Also owner will bring back the Cat from office again to the Car. By doing this owner will make sure that in office now only Mouse is there.

3. Now owner will leave Cat in the car only & will take the Dog alongwith him/her to the office. So now in office Dog & Mouse will be there and in Car only Cat is there

4. Finally owner will come back & will take the Cat to the office.

This is the best way of solving this puzzle of Pet Owner.

Hope this is fine. Please let me know if you are having nay query on this.

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