Thanks for the question! So we’re asked for what could be true if habitat 2 contains at least one female snake and habitat 4 contains 2 male lizards. Well, let’s put a female snake in habitat 2, and two male lizards in habitat 4. Now what has to follow? Remember, we can’t have male lizards next to female snakes. So we know there’s no female snakes in habitats 3 and 5. So any female snakes we add have to go in habitats 1 and 2. We know that there are 4 females left, since there are 5 total females. And we know one of those is a lizard, since we already used up the two males. So we have one female lizard and three female snakes we need to place.
There’s only one female lizard that could go in habitats 3 or 5, so (A) and (B) are wrong. (C) is wrong because the female lizard has to go in (C) and (E). ?(D) is wrong because of rule 2.
(E) can happen. Put a female lizard in habitat 5, and all the female snakes in habitat 1 and 2.
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