LG Game 2 Question 7 Explanation, by LSATHacks
For acceptable order questions, go through the rules and use them to eliminate answers one by one.
Note that I use the rules themselves. I don’t use my diagrams for these questions. Reading the rules again for this question will help you memorize them, and it’s also more efficient.
Rule 1 eliminates E. Hue can’t have four photographs.
Rule 2 eliminates C. The Lifestyle and Metro sections need at least one photographer in common.
Rule 3 eliminates D. Fuentes has a photograph in the sports section. That means Hue should have had a photograph in the lifestyle section.
Rule 4 eliminates A. Gagnon can’t have a photograph in the sports section.
B is CORRECT. It violates no rules.
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In terms of rule 3, I understood it as saying that if Hue had photographs in the Lifestyle section, then they must be the same number as the number of Fuentes’ photographs in the Sports section. I didn’t think it meant that Fuentes’ photographs in the sports section must match Hue’s photographs in the Lifestyle section – in other words, rule 3 would be activated once it’s established that Hue has a photograph in the Lifestyle section. (I.e. according to my understanding Fuentes could have two photographs in the Sports section, Gagnon could have two photographs in the Lifestyle section, and there could be one each of Gagnon and Hue in the Metro section). Where am I going wrong?
This is a tricky rule, and I’ve also seen other students interpret it as a conditional statement, e.g. “if Hue has photographs in the Lifestyle section, then the number of those photographs must match the number of Fuentes’ photographs in the Sports section.”
But, all it’s saying is that the number of Hue’s photographs in the Lifestyle section must match the number of Fuentes’ photographs in the Sports section–that could mean that Hue has zero photographs in L, in which case F must have zero photographs in S. Further, regardless of whether we see Hue’s number as activating Fuentes’, or the other way around, the number of each of their photographs in those sections must match.