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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Richard E DiGiovanni says
Hi Graeme,
Actually, the answer I got, and according to LSAC, the answer is B
hanna says
the answer is b
Roslin T says
this is incorrect, the answer key gives the correct choice as B. Since O cannot be assigned to area 1 (as Christopher points out below), the LO group must fill area 3 with M. This rules out all answer choices except B.
Anna S Esquenazi says
my book says that the correct answer to this question is “b”
Nicole says
The answer is actually B, Koguchi in area 2.
Carli says
Hello, I also think your answer to 11 is not right. O cannot go in 1 and it cannot go in to, O and L have to go in 3, with M. Since P cannot go in 1 and we know that the max number of people has been reached in 3, then P has to go to 2. Since P goes in 2, we know that either K or J also has to go there, but we know for a fact that they cannot both be in 2 because they cannot go together, since O is in 3. Therefore, B (K could be in 2), is the correct answer.
jared says
FLAG.
This is not the correct answer. The 10 ACTUAL pt guide for PTs 72-81 states in the answer key the correct answer is B.
Your set up is violating rule 2, O cannot be assigned to group 1.
The only scenario O and L can be together places them into group 3, since M is there, the only place for P to go is group 2, either with K or J.
B: K is assigned to area 2.
Tom says
Answer to Question 11 is B.
Steve says
This one is wrong because O can’t go in group 1, disproving your scenario 2. The answer is B (K in area 2), as you can see in your scenario 1. First and only mistake a came across on this website so far
MemberCatherine says
As the previous person stated, O can’t go in 1 per the rules. It also can’t go into 2 (b/c it triggers a cascade that ultimately would force too many people into group 2) therefore group 3 consists of MOL; P then must go in 2 (since it can’t go in 1) and J/K can go anywhere btwn groups 1&2. Therefore B is correct (confirmed with the answer key)