Help me answer this Prolog question

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%in_stock(stock#, yes/no)

in_stock( id1942 , no ).
in_stock( id2491, yes).
in_stock( id9791, no).
in_stock( id5312, yes).
in_stock( id6132, no).

%book( stock# , title, edition, year). – stock # is a unique identfier

book( id1942, 'The C Programming Language', 1, 1978 ).
book( id2491, 'The C Programming Language', 2, 1988 ).
book( id9791, 'Pride and Prejudice' ,1 , 1813 ).
book( id9791, 'Pride and Prejudice' ,1 , 1814 ).
book( id5312, 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz', 1, 1900).
book( id6132, 'The Touchstone', 1, 1900).

% Query for “what books are in stock and published in the year 1900?” Give the title.

q1(Title):- book(title, '1900'), in_stock('yes').
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While you can ask these type of homework questions here, do not expect an answer here.

I suspect you were the same person asking similar questions on StackOverflow for which the questions were closed and then deleted.

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A couple of hints:

  • when you defined q(Title), you probably got a “singleton variable” warning.
  • you wrote book(title, '1900') but the book predicate has 4 arguments (similarly, in_stock has 2 arguments but you only gave one.
  • '1900' is an atom; 1900 is a number.
  • 'yes' and yes are both the same atom.