LSAT-Section-1-Logical-Reasoning Section One : Logical Reasoning - Practice Questions

Question 208

During a single week, from Monday through Friday, tours will be conducted of a company's three divisions – Operations, Production, Sales. Exactly five tours will be conducted that week, one each day. The schedule of tours for the week must conform to the following restrictions:

Each division is toured at least once.

The Operations division is not toured on Monday.

The Production division is not toured on Wednesday.

The Sales division is toured on two consecutive days, and on no other days.

If the Operations division is toured on Thursday, then the Production division is toured on Friday.

If in the week's tour schedule the division that is toured on Monday is not the division that is toured on Tuesday, then which one of the following could be true of the week's schedule?

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A tour of the Sales division is scheduled for someday earlier in the week than is any tour of the Production division.
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A tour of the Operations division is scheduled for some day earlier in the week than is any tour of the Production division.
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The Sales division is toured on Monday.
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The Production division is toured on Tuesday.
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The Operations division is toured on Wednesday.

Question 209

Each division is toured at least once.

The Operations division is not toured on Monday.

The Production division is not toured on Wednesday.

The Sales division is toured on two consecutive days, and on no other days.

If the Operations division is toured on Thursday, then the Production division is toured on Friday.

If in the week's tour schedule the division that is toured on Tuesday is also toured on Wednesday, then which one of the following must be true of the week's tour schedule?

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The Production division is toured on Monday.
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The Operations division is toured on Tuesday.
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The Sales division is toured on Wednesday.
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The Sales division is toured on Thursday.
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The Production division is toured on Friday.

Question 210

A crew of up to five workers is to install a partition in at most three days. The crew completes five tasks in this order: framing, wallboarding, taping, sanding, priming. The crew is selected from the following list, which specifies exactly the tasks each person can do:

George: taping

Helena: sanding, priming

Inga: framing, priming

Kelly: framing, sanding

Leanda: wallboarding, taping

Maricita: sanding

Olaf: wallboarding, priming The following conditions must apply:

At least one task is done each day.

Taping and priming are done on different days.

Each crew member does at least one task during the installation, but no more than one task a day.

Each task is done by exactly one worker, completed the day it is started and before the next task begins.

Which one of the following could be a complete and accurate list of the members of the crew?

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George, Helena, Inga, Kelly
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George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda
to check our overall understanding of the game, what do you say? Given option [George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda]’s crew, we can see that at least one member is present for each of the tasks, and there are several possibilities, as for instance this two-day job: Day 1, Kelly framing, Leanda wallboarding, and George taping; day 2, Kelly sanding and Helena priming.
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Helena, Inga, Kelly, Olaf
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Helena, Inga, Maricita, Olaf
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George, Helena, Leanda, Maricita, Olaf

can be rejected. If
is the crew, framing doesn’t happen.
Next, wallboarding. Any crew must include either Leanda or Olaf to do that task. No one will wallboard if option [George, Helena, Inga, Kelly] is the crew, which makes that option impossible. And task #3, taping, needs George or Leanda, which means we need to throw out both options [Helena, Inga, Kelly, Olaf] and [Helena, Inga, Maricita, Olaf], each of which mentions neither of those workers.
We’re left with one choice, [George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda], which must work. And maybe we can use

Reference / correct answer:

George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda
to check our overall understanding of the game, what do you say? Given option [George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda]’s crew, we can see that at least one member is present for each of the tasks, and there are several possibilities, as for instance this two-day job: Day 1, Kelly framing, Leanda wallboarding, and George taping; day 2, Kelly sanding and Helena priming.

Our list of the tasks in order, plus the eligible workers, is the key here. Start with fundamentals. Someone’s got to do framing, right? And the only possible framers are Inga and Kelly, right? So at rock bottom, any “complete and accurate” crew list must include either Inga or Kelly to do the framing. Which means that

E. can be rejected. If

E. is the crew, framing doesn’t happen.

Next, wallboarding. Any crew must include either Leanda or Olaf to do that task. No one will wallboard if option [George, Helena, Inga, Kelly] is the crew, which makes that option impossible. And task #3, taping, needs George or Leanda, which means we need to throw out both options [Helena, Inga, Kelly, Olaf] and [Helena, Inga, Maricita, Olaf], each of which mentions neither of those workers.

We’re left with one choice, [George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda], which must work. And maybe we can use

B. to check our overall understanding of the game, what do you say? Given option [George, Helena, Kelly, Leanda]’s crew, we can see that at least one member is present for each of the tasks, and there are several possibilities, as for instance this two-day job: Day 1, Kelly framing, Leanda wallboarding, and George taping; day 2, Kelly sanding and Helena priming.

LSAT-Section-1-Logical-Reasoning – Section One : Logical Reasoning