Q15

[redcobra21]

Anyone know of a quick way to solve this problem? Had a trouble finding the key inferences to get this question in a short amount of time and ended up spending too much time on it.

Thanks

[ohthatpatrick]

This game is pretty brutal. Be sure to check out the Diagram thread to see if your up front deductions matched ours (or if ours make sense).

When we learn that R has X in 1 and F in 2, that tells us a couple things:

J must have F in 1. (J has to review HFG before R does).

If you deduced up front that R has to alternate between advanced and intro, then we know that R's spot 3 is advanced and R's spot 5 is advanced. (If you didn't know this, check out the Diagram thread).

R's spot 3 will be Z/Y and spot 5 will be Y/Z. Whoever is in R's spot 5 must always be in J's spot 6, since R has to review XYZ before J can. R will always be reviewing one of XYZ in week 5, and so the only week J could possibly review R's week 5 selection is in week 6.

When will J review R's spot 3 selection? J can't review that in spot 3, because J can't review XYZ until R has.

J can't review that in spot 4, because J reviews X in spot 4, and R's spot 3 is going to be Y/Z. So J must review R's spot 3 in J's spot 5.

So we know this:
J: F (H G) X (Y Z)
R: X - F - y/z - g/h - z/y - h/g
(I'm just putting dashes in so it's easier to read)

(A) MBF, because X is the FIRST of the advanced that J will get.
(B) MBF, because X is the FIRST.
(C) MBF, because J has to do intro-intro-intro-adv-adv-adv
(D) Week 5 must be Y or Z
(E) Correct

Hope this helps

[rioben]

The diagram thread confused me because it doesn't say for the third rule that R can't read consecutive advanced books, so what's keeping him from reading iaaiai for example?

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

If Rosenburg evaluated F in week 1, when would Juarez review F?

Remember that F must be evaluated by Juarez before Rosenburg.