powerscore lsat course book page 89 game 3 #19 December 1997

[saranash1]

I chose the answer D. The books explaination as to why this answer is incorrect is beucase if V is selected then m also has to be selected. But, e is the correct answer choice and it has V and no M as well...?

[Jon Denning]

Hey Sara - thanks for the question. For 19, we should be able to move through the answers and find four that violate some rule(s), leaving only one as possible. Let's look at the two answers you're debating and find a violation in one:

D. V requires both H and M. Here we have V, but neither H nor M is included. With only one remaining space, there isn't room for both H and M, so V is impossible and that's why this answer is wrong.

E. Again, V requires H and M. But in this case we have H included already. So the fifth spot could be M and we would be okay here. So this answer is possible.

Make sense?

[saranash1]

Ok that makes perfect sense. I wasn't looking at the numbers. 3-1-1 & 1-2-2