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[nazu.s.shaikh]

I think with the exception of Q13 and Q15 are the only ones I understood and answered correctly. And that was purely guesstimating. I'm having difficulty approaching the rest of the questions.

What I don't understand from the constraints is the first one " The five words are written from left to right on a single line in alphabetical order"

What does the alphabetical order signify?

[ManhattanPrepLSAT2]

This is a very unusual game and it incorporates a very unusual definition of the word "word" -- it defines a word as a combination of letters that match up with the rules they define.

When they say these "words" are listed alphabetically, the meaning is the same as when we would put normal words in alphabetical order.

So, if the five terms to be listed were

acb

ebc

afd

bac

ead

The order, alphabetically, would be

acb, afd, bac, ead, ebc.

[rpcuhk]

Hi Mike,
I want to know in your example, if I switch the first two words afd, acb, bac, ead, ebc
is it still alphabetical? Because my understanding is that as the alphabetical rule only restrict the first letters of the five words, not the second letters, thank you!!

[ManhattanPrepLSAT2]

Imagine we had to put three real human names in alphabetical order:

Allen, Abby, Aron -- what would the correct order be?

1. Abby 2. Allen 3. Aron

When we put elements in alphabetical order, we work off the first letter first, but then if the first letter is the same, we use then next letter to organize elements, and the LSAT is thinking about "alphabetical" in these terms for this game --

So, alphabetically speaking, acb must go before afd.