Setup and Rule Diagrams

[Administrator]

Setup and Rule Diagram Explanation

This is a Grouping, Identify the Templates, Numerical Distribution game.

This game setup is discussed in our podcast recap of PT92 Logic Games at https://www.powerscore.com/lsat/podcast/111/

This setup is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[Yazmins22]

can someone provide the setup for this one ?

[Adam Tyson]

We will have a complete explanation up soon, Yazmins22, but in the meantime, here are a few tips to get you started:

This game is about grouping - you are putting the 5 tenants into 3 apartments, so the apartments are the groups.

Now, think about the numbers in the game. We have more tenants than apartments, so some apartments will have to have more than one tenant. There are some roommates in there! Give some consideration to the possible numeric distributions. For example, you cannot have all 5 tenants in one apartment, with the other two being empty, for a whole host of reasons (like that the pet owners cannot live with the people who do not own pets, and that no more than one apartment can be empty). What numeric distributions are possible here? One is that all three pet owners live together, in which case you could have a 3-1-1 or else a 3-2 0 distribution. Or, the pet owners could be split up, which would give you a 2-2-1 distribution. Take those distributions and play around with where they could go - there are some restrictions based on the other rules, like no pet owners in #3 and no more than 2 tenants in #1,

That numeric distribution is, to me, the crux of the whole game, and I would built templates around them. See where that takes you and let us know how that works out!

[rdee81]

I read Adam's response to the setup question for the apt tenants. I was wondering how important are numeric distributions? Do you use numeric distributions on every game, and if not then what cues someone to use them?

[rdee81]

I read Adam's response to the setup question for the apt tenants. I was wondering how important are numeric distributions? Do you use numeric distributions on every game, and if not then what cues someone to use them?

Also with the apartment blg tenants can 2:1:2 be a numeric distribution and can numeric distributions be any way you can come up with the total of variables? For instance, like Adam said the numeric distributions are 3:1:1 3:2:0 or 2:2:1 so can another numeric distribution be 2:1:2?

[Rachael Wilkenfeld]

Hi rdee,

Not all games have a distribution concept, but I check the numerical distribution on every game. For most games it's just 1-1. That is, there is one variable for each slot in the game. However, by checking each game, I make sure I don't miss a numerical distribution concept.

Here, Adam was giving the unfixed distributions possible. That means that the 3-2-0 could be in any order, and would be the same as 2-3-0 or 0-2-3 and so on. However, it's possible here to do fixed distributions and figure out the distributions of the specific apartments.

We know that there are 3 pet owners, and 2 non-pet owners. J is a non-pet owner and lives in apt 3. That means apartment 3 has either 1 or 2 people. It can't have more than 2 because pet owners and non-pet owners cannot live together. Let's start building our distributions from this point.

If apartment 3 has just J, that means we have another non-pet owner to place, and 3 pet owners. Those groups need to be separate. Apartment 1 has at most 2 tenants, to it can't be the group of 3 pet owners. It must be the 1 non-pet owner in this distribution.

Distribution one: 1-3-1: Apartment 1-1 non-pet owner. Apartment 2--H, and two other pet owners. Apartment 3-J

If apartment 3 has both of our non-pet owners, we have some room to play. In that case, we can put all our pet owners together, or split them between apartments 1 and 2. If we put them all together, they must be in apartment 2 because apartment 1 can only have a max of 2 tenants.

Distribution two: 0-3-2: Apartment 1-vacant. Apartment 2-H and two other pet owners. Apartment 3-J and one other non-pet owner

If the pet owners are split up, the two pet owner apartment must include H, but there are two options for the apartment distributions.

Distribution three: 1-2-2: Apartment 1-pet owner. Apartment 2: H and one other pet owner. Apartment 3-J and one other non-pet owner

Distribution four: 2-1-2. Apartment 1- H and one other pet owner. Apartment 2-pet owner. Apartment 3 J and one other non-pet owner.

That's how I'd go into the game. Those four distributions are the only possible ways we can split up the tenants.

Hope that helps!