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Old Order
Age 11 to 14
ShortChallenge Level 
Gus is older than Flora.
Alessandro is older than Zara but younger than Flora.
Oliver is younger than Gus but older than Zara.
Yvette is younger than Gus.
Alessandro is older than Oliver.
Flora is younger than Yvette.
Can you list these six friends in order of age?
If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.
This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.
You can find more short problems, arranged by curriculum topic, in our short problems collection.
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