(1) If a Trail Blazer is a car, then my house is brown. (2) Either roses are not red or a Trail Blazer is a car. (3) Roses are red. Prove: My house is brown.

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Translate the sentences into symbols, then solve the problem, giving the variables in order, while declaring the appropriate logical arguments by name, such as MT, MP, HS, and the like.

Suppose that the following statements are true.
(1) Sam eats an apple or a pear.

(2) If Sam eats an apple, then Betty reads today's New York Times.
(3) Betty does not read today's New York Times.

(1) If a Trail Blazer is a car, then my house is brown.
(2) Either roses are not red or a Trail Blazer is a car.
(3) Roses are red.

Prove: My house is brown.

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