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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 03:28pm on 2005-03-15
But by simple (though repetitious) logical elimination, you can figure out which question have the "right" answers.
 
posted by [identity profile] darwiniacat.livejournal.com at 03:31pm on 2005-03-15
To be honest I'm not so interested as to take the same test over and over though.
 
posted by [identity profile] darwiniacat.livejournal.com at 03:56pm on 2005-03-15
Okay, I went back and figured it out and I got 2, 3, and 6 wrong. But the only one I see as actually being wrong is 3 which I rushed through. For #2 given that the first and third answer were both equally true and I didn't want to arbitrarily pick between them, and the second answer could be true I thought that "All of the above" was the safest one.

For #6, even though the third answer was not true, the first and second answer again could be true.
 
posted by [identity profile] deor.livejournal.com at 04:40pm on 2005-03-15
For #2, the second answer cannot be true by the rules of baseball: there are no "ties". If the game is tied, they go into extra innings until it is no longer tied.

However, the testmakers seem to want you to answer "all of the above". Feh.
 
posted by [identity profile] darwiniacat.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 2005-03-15
Okay, that would require me to have knowledge of the rules of baseball. Since I'm thoroughly disinterested in sports that one flew right past me.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:12pm on 2005-03-15
Actually, no, all the information required is in the statement of the problem. I'd actually forgotten that there are no ties in baseball, and just reacted to the "Given that if A then B then which statements about A and B follow?" construction. So the question could've been about jai-lai or MTG or ... that game played in lunar gravity with lasers and mirrors that I've forgotten the name of ... or any other sport I don't know, and I would've gotten the same answer.
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:22pm on 2005-03-15
Nope, they weren't looking for "all of the above" there. Hint: the question asked, "what else must also be true?"
 

#6

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:27pm on 2005-03-15
I think your problem with #6 might be a misreading more than a logic error.

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