Q16

[jacqueline.niba]

For question 16, why couldn't N go in day 2?

[chike_eze]

Question is which CANNOT be 2nd. As you've pointed out, Negotiating can go second.

1) G H
2) P N
3) O T

Persuasion cannot go 2nd because it forces Negotiating to day 3, which forces out Telemarketing. i.e., Telemarketing cannot be scheduled on any day if Persuasion is 2nd.

Why? G and O before T, N and T cannot go together, and G and O cannot go together.

[ferielchebouli]

Sorry I still dont understand ... I got the same setup

1) GH
2) PN
3) OT

The way I see it P CAN be the second seminar given on the second day...it still allows T to be on the third day..

am I missing something? Can N not be with P? The way I understood it...once P is given then N could be given and isnt that what number 2 points out.

[eunjung.shin]

Sorry I still dont understand ... I got the same setup

1) GH
2) PN
3) OT

The way I see it P CAN be the second seminar given on the second day...it still allows T to be on the third day..

am I missing something? Can N not be with P? The way I understood it...once P is given then N could be given and isnt that what number 2 points out.

Same question.... I got thesame setup that allows P to be on the second day. Can anyone help?

[timmydoeslsat]

P is not before N if it is true that P is the last conference of the second day. If N is also on Day 2, then you are having N come prior to the P, which is a rule violation.

[eunjung.shin]

P is not before N if it is true that P is the last conference of the second day. If N is also on Day 2, then you are having N come prior to the P, which is a rule violation.

Thank you! I think I didn't see that the questions say "which one cannot be the SECOND of the second day" ..totally makes sense now.

just one more question.
The rules doesn't say that whether which one of the long or short one goes first on a certain day(it says one short and one long will be given each day), but how do we know we can't have mixed order of long and short for three days?

for example,

1) Long, short
2) short, long
3) long, short

I automatically thought that either all long ones or all short ones go first, but as I review I see the other possibility that I never thought of.

Thanks for your help!

[ShehryarB30]

Im confused why B is wrong because in slot 1 g/o can go with h, in slot p can go with n and in slot 3 g/o can go with T. So how is it wrong?

[ohthatpatrick]

You wrote:
Im confused why B is wrong because in slot 1 g/o can go with h, in slot p can go with n and in slot 3 g/o can go with T. So how is it wrong?


This scenario is illegal:
g/o, H | p, N | o/g, T

This one would be okay:
g/o, H | N, p | o/g, T

The 3rd rule says that we can't have N until we've already had P.

Since P can be the 2nd spot on the 2nd day, we can get rid of (B).
The question stem wants someone who cannot go 2nd spot on 2nd day.

Other possible scenarios:
p, N | g/o, H | o/g, T
p, N | H, g/o | o/g, T

From those, we can also see that H, G, and O can be in the 2nd spot of the 2nd day, so we can also eliminate (A), (C), and (E).