#2 - Global

[Administrator]

Please post your questions below!

[schmerg]

Answer is B. Management must be at 1 pm because Management has to come before Personnel.

[Stephanie Oswalt]

Answer is B. Management must be at 1 pm because Management has to come before Personnel.

Hi schmerg!

Thanks for the post! The answer to #2 is actually A. Please let us know if you have any questions regarding this question and answer choice. Thanks!

[g_lawyered]

Hi P.S.,
I rushed through this question I got it incorrect. I want to make sure I understand why answer choice E is incorrect. Is this the only hypothetical that makes answer choice E as CBT? That O and U can be at the same time...

Here's the hypothetical I drew:
In order of (1-3)
W: M, O, S
E: G, U, P

[Robert Carroll]

GGIBA003,

You've switched or ignored the last rule - U must be earlier than G. So that hypothetical does not work. However, this should (in order):

West: SOG
East MUP

Robert Carroll

[g_lawyered]

Oops. I see my mistake now. Is this hypothetical that makes answer choice A correct (MBF)?
(A)- G earlier than M
W: S, M, O/P
E: G. U, P/O

Answer A also breaks rule 4?
Thanks in advance!

[Adam Tyson]

I wouldn't suggest using hypothetical solutions to prove that an answer cannot be true, although you could use them to prove that some things could be true. For example, if you had answer B as a contender, you might try drawing out a solution in which P was earlier than G. That would mean we would have a sequence of M P G, which would place M at 1:00, P at 2:00, and G at 3:00. That could look like this:

West: M P S
East: U O G

(There may be other solutions that would also work, but all we have to do to prove that an answer to a Cannot Be True question is wrong is to show that it Could Be True in at least one case.)

For answer A, my suggestion would be to diagram the answer and see what it looks like. If we try to put G before M, when we couple that with the rule about U and G we get this sequence:

U G M

This cannot be true because M must be before both O and P, and this sequence makes that impossible by placing M at 3:00. There's no need for a hypothetical solution here, and no hypothetical solution would work in any case. Just a quick diagram of the answer choice in connection with the original rules reveals that it cannot be true and is therefore correct.

[g_lawyered]

Hi Adam,
Thanks for that explanation. I hadn't thought of using that approach to MBF questions. I'll start using it now, thank you.