Q2

[ptraye]

For this game, my diagram was nearly the same as the diagram provided. I did not place any second apartments, only the five stories, because I know the total is 8, and the remaining 3 apartments have a couple possibilities.

For question #6, without any initial inferences, is there a way to solve this question without making examples for each answer to find the correct answer? When I deferred judgment, I did not find any answer, initially.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

Without any initial inferences you'd either go look for something to infer, or you'd have to create a hypothetical that shows each of the answer choices could be false.

Hopefully, that won't be your instinct. The first couple of questions are usually (but not always) either testing a couple of easy implied inferences and/or an orientation question.

For everyone else, there are no rules that would establish that one particular resident would need to live on any one particular floor. But there are rules that would exclude some residents from particular floors.

For example, neither M nor N can live on the 2nd floor. P cannot live on the 5th floor. K cannot live on the 1st floor. Some rules are explicit, such as Q cannot live on the 1st or 2nd floors.

So it makes sense to check out answer choices (C) and (D) first. L could live on the 2nd floor, but N could not. Answer choice (D) is correct.