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General questions relating to the LSAT Logic Games.
 karlaurrea
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I have seen in prior games where a rule states, "must include exactly one student (or etc...)" And I can't remember off the top of my head which game, but I have interpreted this before as, "at least one being included, because there can be other "students" included"

If the rule would have stated, "ONLY one student is included" that is more define, and would mean only one can be. So I am confused, as to when I should interpret certain terminology. Does it depend only on certain game scenarios?

*If you want to know exactly what game I encountered this, I was practicing Game#13 in chapter 9 [pg9-77]

If anyone can help! That would be great :) THANKS!!!
 Nikki Siclunov
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#6669
Be careful here because there is no ambiguity in a rule stating, "The committee must include exactly one student." Clearly, one and only one student must be included in the committee. If it were possible to include more than one student, they would have said, "The committee must include at least one student."

Remember: test-makers try to ensure that the language on the exam leaves as little room for ambiguity as possible, especially in Logic Games. Of course, verbose and confusing language is common in LR and RC, but that does not mean that the meaning is ambiguous per se.

Thanks!

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