Edit: diagram and explanation below are incorrect. The answer is B. However, due to the impending removal of logic games, this explanation is unlikely to receive a correction due to the difficulty of making new diagram images. Some explanations in the comments have answered this.
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This question gives us a new rule. To draw it, you should look at our original scenarios and expand on them. These were the scenarios:
This question’s new rule is that LO are together. So in scenario 1, MLO go third, and fill up the group.
Scenario 2 is slightly more complicated. In scenario 2, KLO go together and fill up a group. Which group can they go in? Only 1st. If O goes 2nd, rule 2 says that JK must be together. So we’d have JKLO. But there’s only space for three variables in a group.
So in scenario 1 we have MLO filling group 3, and in scenario 2 we have KLO filling group 1:
In scenario 1, J, K and P are left to place (and JK can’t go together, rule 4). One of J/K must go 1st, because P can’t.
In scenario 2, J and P are left to place. At least one goes 2nd, because every group needs at least one ranger. The one of P and J can go either 2nd or 3rd:
E is CORRECT. P can be third, in scenario 2. (The P/J floating to the right of the diagram indicates it could go in either open group).
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Kate says
yeah this explanation on 11 is wrong and so is the answer
Sam C. says
The correct answer to this question according to the answer key is B.
Seran says
B is correct. You put KLO in row one, which breaks the rule that O and P cannot go in Group 1.
Sydney says
In LG 2, Q11 you have “O” in group 1 which is not allowed via the rules, and you have E as the established answer but B is the answer according to every book I have…. can you explain more
Tatiana says
Hey, just wanted to let you know that you actually got this answer wrong. The answer is B. O can’t go in area 1…
MemberChristopher Toy says
In logic game 2, question 11 you have “O” in group one, but one of the rules forbids “O” from being group 1.
Sydney says
I was wondering the exact same thing.
ZABE says
yes and the correct answer is B.
Leo says
yeah this dude is definitely wrong. The Correct answer is B…..
Nick says
Hey Graeme, I love your explanations they have been helping me so much over the last few months. But I am still a little bit confused on this question. I thought according to rule 2 of this problem O cannot go in area 1, so wouldn’t that make scenario 2 impossible. Also in the answer section of the book it says “B” is the correct answer. Any further explanation would be amazing!
Caroline says
My book states that B is correct for this question. I got E as well, but looking at your diagram, can’t A, per your second diagram, B, per your first diagram, AND E, per your second diagram ALL be true?
What am I missing?J can go in 3, K can go in 2, AND P can go in 3? Is there some reason that the second diagram is not valid at all? That’s all I can think of for the book’s answer, but I don’t see it…
I see it now. Second Diagram is INVALID because O CANNOT go in 1. ONLY B is available with this.
Dag J. says
Answer for Prep Test 79, Logic game 2 Question 11 is incorrect. You placed K, L, and O in Area 1, however, O cannot be placed in Area 1 as per the rules-
Correct answer is B, not E. Other than that, this is a fantastic website and an amazing help. Only error I’ve encountered during my studies. Thank you-
Stu says
LSAT 79, Logic Game 2, Question 11
Answer is B.