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LSAT 70, Logic Game 1, Question 7

LSAT 70 Explanations

LG Game 1 Question 7 Explanation

If you’re like most LSAT students, I’ll bet you hate rule substitution questions. If I told you they don’t have to be hard, would you believe me?

The trick is to look at the full effect of a rule, and describe it another way. Let’s look at what we know about X:

LSAT PrepTest 70, Game 1, Question 7, Diagram 1

X comes after Z, V and W. X also comes after Y, because Y has to be in one of the first three places, and X already has three people in front.

So Z, V, W and Y comes before X. Only U could come after X. That’s the full extent of the rule.

And now that’s we’ve looked at the full extent of the rule, it’s obvious that A is CORRECT. 

You can also answer these questions by elimination. An answer is wrong if it allows something that shouldn’t be allowed, or if it prevents something that normally would be allowed.

B is wrong because it puts V before W. Normally, it’s possible for W to go before V.

C is wrong because it leaves out Z. With the rule in this answer, it would be possible for Z to go after X.

D is wrong because it allows Z to go after X. For example, this order is normally illegal, but it would be allowed with this rule:

LSAT PrepTest 70, Game 1, Question 7, Diagram 2

That diagram also proves that E wrong. E allows Z to be after X as long as X is in five. That is different from the normal rules.

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