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PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by frankchen007_86 Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:33 am

Hi,
Can someone provide set up for this game? Any tips are much appreciated.
Thanx

solved by myself. finally
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Re: PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by noah Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:15 am

Sorry about the delay! The holidays shut down our brains!

Here's my diagram.



I'd be interested in finding out if you had something very different. I found it tough to easily show that the L after the MKM - O string could be an L in last place, but didn't have to be.
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Re: PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by ManhattanPrepLSAT1 Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:37 pm

Reposted from walkerdoreen07
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Hello,

I had some problems getting started with the rules of this game. i printed out the info on the forum. I got confused with rule 5 rule 7.

I did M..K...M and KOL (at least one)

I'm thinking I should have combined the two rules? I think that's why I got stuck on Q2 and Q3.

Questions llike these(q2/q3/q4), should you skim though answers and then cross out similarities or do trial error. Im having problem to know what approach to do FIRST.

Q4 is also the same, what do you do first. write out diagram first? or cross out the similarities of the answers to narrow down answers. Hope I made sense.

The diagram on forum did make things alittle clearer.

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Re: PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by ManhattanPrepLSAT1 Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:04 pm

The diagram posted earlier works well for this game (Thanks Noah!) and I think the confusion you're finding is a result of a misunderstanding in what the rules imply.

So let's take a look at rules 5 and 7, because I'm sure that's where the confusion occurred.

Rule 5 establishes that there is a MKM chunk somewhere on the number line.

Rule 7 establishes that both of K's precede the only O, and the only O precedes at least one L.

K...K -- O -- L

The combination of rules 5 and 7 yields the following

MKM -- O -- L

which is very limited on the number. Try answering questions 2, 3, and 4 with the following three frames! I think you'll find this game much easier...

_ K M K M _ _ _ _
_ K _ M K M _ _ _
J K _ _ M K M O L
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
_____|

Keep in mind that only J's and L's can be assigned in positions 1-4 and 9 that are still open.
 
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Re: PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by gethornburg Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:20 pm

I believe this template set is complete ...

Q. 1-6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
L K M K M (J O) L J
L/J K J/L M K M O L/J J/L (no JJ)
J K (J L) M K M O L

Q.7
L K M K M J O J L
L K J M K M (J O) L
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Re: PT34, S4,G1 - Jill, Kurt, Larisa, Manny, and Olga

by ManhattanPrepLSAT1 Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:33 pm

Pretty close but you missed one.

L/J K J/L M K M J/L O L/J

I've attached a setup that includes the constraints and inferences that can be made using a three frame setup!
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Re: Diagram

by jyup1982 Mon Aug 22, 2011 3:38 am

one more question :)
i am wondering if the phrase 'either' can be interpreted as 'both' in Rule7. is it the same? thank you
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Re: Diagram

by noah Wed Aug 24, 2011 11:45 am

jyup1982 Wrote:one more question :)
i am wondering if the phrase 'either' can be interpreted as 'both' in Rule7. is it the same? thank you

Yup!

Though, just to be clear, "either" doesn't always mean "both" - like in the statement "John will either swim or fly" the LSAT is saying it could be swimming, flying, or both. And, to go a bit further on this topic, if the LSAT wants to take both off the table in this example, you'd see "John will either swim or fly, but not both."

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Re: Diagram

by Nina Fri Aug 02, 2013 11:12 am

i'm still a little bit confused about rule 7. i know the "either" can be interpreted as "both" here, but can it also be interpreted as "only one of the two Ks"? and when i did this Game, i had this rule diagramed as
K-O-K (ignoring the O-L part)

how do we know that here the "either" means "both"?

thanks a lot!
 
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Re: Diagram

by aprilhu33 Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:11 pm

I actually want clarification on what "either" means and why in this case it means both but in another case it could mean either one but not both. Can someone please explain how we would differentiate between the two meanings of "either" please? Thanks!
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Re: Diagram

by noah Thu Aug 22, 2013 7:39 pm

Nina Wrote:i'm still a little bit confused about rule 7. i know the "either" can be interpreted as "both" here, but can it also be interpreted as "only one of the two Ks"? and when i did this Game, i had this rule diagramed as
K-O-K (ignoring the O-L part)

how do we know that here the "either" means "both"?

thanks a lot!


aprilhu33 Wrote:I actually want clarification on what "either" means and why in this case it means both but in another case it could mean either one but not both. Can someone please explain how we would differentiate between the two meanings of "either" please? Thanks!


That is tricky!

Usually, we see "either" used like this: "If F is in, either J or K is out."

In this case, we'd need to see "but not both" tacked on to the end or else we have to interpret it as J or K or both.

Sometimes we'll see "either" used as we're seeing it here, which is similar to its use here: I'm not going to take either of your suggestions."

So, amazingly, "either" can mean both or "one or the other." It definitely depends on whether you see an "or" later on. "Either...or" means one or the other, while "either" on its own is used as "both"