Q2

[eagerlawstudent]

For question #2, I am confused as to how Jill and Manny are able to be a pair stocked in aisle 5. If someone could map out this possibility that would be great!

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Good news! That's not what Q2 asks you to do. In this game you will never have more than one clerk stocking an aisle. The assignment of clerks to aisles may change from question to question, but each aisle will always be stocked by one clerk.

Now since each clerk can stock at most two aisles and that Olga stocks exactly one aisle, we can determine that each of the other clerks stocks two aisles

J K L M O
2 2 2 2 1

For Q2 we need to use the frames from the set up in the earlier post. We can see that aisle 5 must be stocked by M or else K. Ruling out any answer choice that contains an M or else a K, eliminates every answer choice but (E) - which is the correct answer.

Hope that helps!

[csunnerberg13]

What's the best strategy for this question if you did not use/make frames?

[JosephV]

What's the best strategy for this question if you did not use/make frames?

I am not sure that this is the "best" strategy but it does not depend on using frames per se. It does assume that you have already scribbled down a "hypothetical" arrangement of the clerks. Probably one of the simpler such arrangements is: L K M K M J O L J. From here you see that M can be on aisle #5. Therefore, any answer that contains M in it is wrong.

Thus, (A) ,(C), and (D) are eliminated and you are left with (B) and (E) to check. Notice that both have O in them. Therefore, in order to determine that an answer is correct or wrong, you'll have to check whether either K or L could be on aisle #5.

Check answer choice (B), i.e. can K be in #5? A possible arrangement is L K J M K M O L J.

Check answer choice (C), i.e. can L be in #5? We know that K is in #2. So if L is in #5, that leaves no room for the MKM chunk to go anywhere but in slots #6-8. Since O must be after both Ks, O must go into #9. But O must also be followed by at least one L for which we have no room. Hence, conclude that L cannot be in slot #5.

Therefore, the correct answer to this question is (B).