#9 - Global, Must Be True

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation
(The complete setup for this game can be found here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=10911)

The correct answer choice is (C)

To answer this question correctly, you need to identify a complete and accurate list of the trees, any one of which can be planted on lot 1. Your task is greatly facilitated by the use of Templates. In the 1-3-3 distribution (Templates A and B), the only trees that can be planted on lot 1 are L and W. In the 2-2-3 distribution (Template C), lot 1 must contain two trees, one of which must be L or W (but not both). The other tree cannot be M, H, or O, and must therefore be either P or S.

Thus, the complete and accurate list of the trees that can be planted on lot 1 is L, P, S, and W which agrees with answer choice (C).

Answer choice (A) contains a list that is both inaccurate (H can never be planted on lot 1) and incomplete (it is missing L).

Answer choice (B) contains a list that is both inaccurate (H can never be planted on lot 1) and incomplete (it is missing L and P).

Answer choice (C) is the correct answer choice. See discussion above.

Answer choice (D) is incorrect, because it contains a list that is accurate but incomplete (S is missing from it).

Answer choice (E) is incorrect, because it contains a list that is accurate but incomplete (L is missing from it).

[nstiell]

I may be missing something but one of the rules is that both L and W cannot both be on lot 1--how is C a possibility?

[Adam Tyson]

They aren't asking for a solution for Lot 1, nstiell. They are looking for a complete list of every variable that could, under some circumstance, be on Lot 1. That's what the "any of which" in the question means - that any of these trees could be on Lot 1, either alone or with one of the others. Sure, L and W cannot go there together, but they CAN both go on Lot 1, either alone or with P or S.