The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works. The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play. The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:No more than four French works are selected.At least three but no more than four novels are selected.At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected. If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.Which one of the following could be the organizer's selection of works?
Answer(s): C
A proper selection of works cannot include more than four French works but option [three French novels, one Russian novel, two French plays] does. It cannot include more than four novels of any type but option [three French novels, two Russian novels, one Russian play] does. It cannot let the Russian novels outnumber the French ones, yet they do in option [one French novel, two Russian novels, one French play, one Russian play].And it cannot include all three plays, as option [two French novels, one Russian novel, two French plays, one Russian play] does.
The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works. The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play. The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:No more than four French works are selected.At least three but no more than four novels are selected.At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected. If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.Which one of the following could be true about the organizer's selection of works?
Answer(s): A
The correct answer could be true, meaning the 4 wrong choices cannot be true, and your best bet here is either to try out each choice until you find the winner, or skip the question for now. The former option works out well here, because we discern option [No Russian novels are selected] as possible right away. If no Russian novels are selected, we can still get an acceptable group like so: F F F f r. Having seen that as possible, we can quickly ascertain the problems with the others because they violate rules almost as quickly as the wrong answers in a standard Acceptability question.
The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works. The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play. The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:No more than four French works are selected.At least three but no more than four novels are selected.At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected. If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.If the works selected include three French novels, which one of the following could be a complete and accurate list of the remaining works selected?
In a new roster for this question you could circle F F F and build from there, realizing that either we choose 0 or 1R's (2 is impossible, given Rule 2).
The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works. The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play. The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:No more than four French works are selected.At least three but no more than four novels are selected.At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected. If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.The organizer must at least select
Answer(s): D
The very appearance of this question might have suggested to you, at the outset, that there's at least one fact about the selection process that is inferable from the rules alone. But whether you worked it out up front or now, how come? Because to choose a single French novel would restrict us to a single Russian novel (Rule 3), and that plus Rule 4 would ensure that we could never meet our quota of five works mandated in the opening ¶. At most we'd be restricted to four: the French novel, the Russian novel, and two plays. In order to meet the requirement of five works minimum, we must choose at least two French novels at all times. And if you look back over the first three questions, we've done just that all along.
The organizer of a reading club will select at least five and at most six works from a group of nine works. The group consists of three French novels, three Russian novels, two French plays, and one Russian play. The organizer's selection of works must conform to the following requirements:No more than four French works are selected.At least three but no more than four novels are selected.At least as many French novels as Russian novels are selected. If both French plays are selected, then the Russian play is not selected.Any one of the following could be true about the organizer's selection of works EXCEPT:
Four of the five choices are acceptable, and one is not, meaning that one of these choices violates a rule. Now that you undoubtedly know this game's rules so well, the quickest approach might be to use your pencil to work out each choice. Doing so reveals option [No Russian novels and...] right off. If, in line with option [No Russian novels and...]'s dictates, you list the nine entities and cross off all the R's while circling only one lower-case letter, you should realize very quickly that you're stuck. At best you can have a total of 4 - the three French novels and the one play. But that won't cut it, so option [No Russian novels and...] is correct.
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