If Hannah visits a combined total of four cities in countries X and Y, what is the greatest total number of days she ...
alisamMay 29, 2018
Please explain Question 5 a Bit More
If Hannah visits a combined "total of four cities" in countries X and Y, what is the greatest total number of days she can spend visiting cities in country Y?
How can you add those extra 2 days to Y when the question specifically states that X and Y combined is a total of 4 days?
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@alisam The question says "total of four cities" not "total of 4 days." This is a major difference and illustrates how easy it is to get tripped up by small differences on the LSAT. Make sure you know exactly what it's asking before you jump it, or it'll trick you.
Explaining it with the use of the "total of four cities," here is the explanation. If it's a total of four cities, then she must spend a minimum of 2 days in 1 city in X and 2 days in 2 cities in Z to make a total of 6. If she does that then she can spend the 8 (14 minus the 6 in X & Z) remaining days in 3 (4 minus the required 1 in X) cities in Y.
August 24, 2021
@Christopher,
How does that make sense though because the rule says that she has to spend a minimum of two days in each city that she visits!
RaviFebruary 6, 2022
If you set up this game using distributions, you'll see there are only two possible distributions of days to cities.
One scenarios has 4 cities with 2 days each and 2 cities with 3 days each.
Another scenario has 5 cities with 2 days each and 1 city with 4 days.
If we want to max out her time in Y, and there are only 4 cities being visited between X and Y, then she will visit 3 cities in why. In our first distribution, she could spend a max of 8 days in Y (2 + 3 +3), and in our second distribution, she could spend a max of 8 days in Y also (2 + 2 + 4).
