Q17

[faronowitz]

I was able to narrow it down to (D) and (E), but couldn't both (D) and (E) be true. I made 4 frames for this game and using the 3 three last frames:

S S O _ _
P S S _ _
P O/P S S O/P
P O/P O S S

I got rid of choices A, B, and C because P has to go on Monday. However, couldn't P be on Tuesday (as shown in frames 3 and 4) and couldn't O be on Wednesday (as shown in frame 4)?

If someone could point out what I'm missing here, that would be great! Thanks!

[ohthatpatrick]

Your original frames look great!

You’re just missing that with (D), we would have P going on Monday and Tuesday, which contradicts the rule of Q17 "the division toured on Mon is not the division that is toured on Tues".

So if you were looking at frames 2, 3, and 4 to answer this question, you would initially redraw frames 3 and 4 to be

P O S S O/P
P O O S S

[eligrossman6]

Hi there!

I am having trouble with the language used in the answer choices, specifically the word "any".

A, for example, says that a "tour of S is scheduled some day earlier in the week than is any tour of P."

My frames for this game were:

P O S S P/O

P O O S S

P S S O P

Since I read the word "any" to mean "any one, but not necessarily all," answer A is a viable option because in my first and third frames, S is scheduled some day earlier in the week than a tour of P.

Does any = all? If it does, then I understand...did I miss something more basic?

[ohthatpatrick]

Yes, "any" = "each" = "every" = "all"

If I said, "I got to the wedding before any of my friends".

Is it possible that when I got to the wedding, I saw one of my friends there?

No, the original sentence is guaranteeing that ALL of my friends came after me.

So if we say "an Operations tour is scheduled for some day earlier in the week than is ANY Productions tour", then we have to pick a day in the week to put Operation on, and then put ALL the Productions tours after that day.

It's possible that we have O P P O, because the condition doesn't force all O's to be before all P's.

But it's NOT possible that we have P O P P, because the condition requires that there is an O that is before all/each/any/every P.

Let me know if that doesn't clarify.