Q11

[vswamy]

Could you explain why question #11 has answer choice A?

I didn't choose answer choice A because you could have four french novels and one russian play and satisfy all the conditions.

[noah]

My goodness how I hate this game!

There are only 3 French novels (so your hypothetical is impossible). So, if you have no Russian novels, and two of the three plays must also be out, what do you have left to fill the five slots? The basic issue is that too many things are knocked out.

French Novel
French Novel
French Novel
french/russian play
?

OUT:
Russian Novel
Russian Novel
Russian Novel
french play
french/russian play

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[fch4mat]

When I read that question, I understood it to be no Russian novels and one Russian play were selected. Either way, it would not have been enought French works.

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[amy]

Wht is "A" correct? In the stimulus it states that AT LEAST THREE novels must be selected. However, in questions 11 answers B - E only have one or two novels selected. How are these answers correct?

[timmydoeslsat]

The question stem asks us what could be true about the works.

In choice B, for example, it could be true that exactly one R(N) and F(P) F(P) are selected.

It would require us to have both F(N) F(N) included in the work so as to comply with the rule of there being at least as many French novels as Russian novels.

These answer choices are simply giving us facts about the selections, not the entire lineup.

A cannot be true. It is not possible for there to be 0 R(N) and exactly 1 play.

There has to be at least 3 novels, so we would have to use all three French novels. Then we can only select one play. That is only 4 works selected. We must have at least 5. This is something that must be false.

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[jeanh93]

I didn't choose (A) due to the contrapositive of Fp & Fp --> ~Rp, which is Rp --> ~Fp or Fp (if Rp is selected, then either one of the Fp cannot be selected).
This enabled me to come up with the following: (A) Rp --> Fn + Fn + Fn + Fp, thus fulfilling the conditional statements. Can anyone tell me why this is wrong?