If Doctor Yamata operates on Tuesday, then her schedule for treating patients could be
Anna20on August 19, 2020
Doctor Yamata
I'm totally confused with this game - sorry for the next question! As I noted in my previous question, in my set up, Doctor Yamata has to treat patients in the afternoon on Saturday and conduct research on Saturday morning - how can the answer be E? And why would it not be B?
Thanks very much!!
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No need to apologize - we're here and happy to help!
See my response to your previous question for the full game set-up.
I think you may have self-imposed a condition where Dr. Y must perform two different activities each day and this may be contributing to your confusion with this game.
As outlined in my previous explanation, we can combine our Option 2 AM and Option 1 PM to get answer choice (E).
AM: R O O O P
PM: L L P P P
M T W F S
Notice that this meets all of the conditions and satisfies the question stem's requirement that Dr. Y performs O on T:
1) Dr. Y performs O on exactly three mornings: T, W, and F
2) Dr. Y does not perform O on M, so this condition is moot.
3) Dr. Y does L in the afternoon on two consecutive calendar days: M and T.
4) Dr. Y treats P on S morning and W, F, and S afternoons.
5) Dr. Y conducts R on exactly one morning: M.
6) Dr. Y only treats P on S; she neither does L nor performs O on S.
Answer choice (B) cannot be correct because it requires us to violate a rule.
AM: _ O P _ _
PM: P _ P _ P
M T W F S
We know that Dr. Y must perform O on exactly three mornings. This leaves us with two options.
Option 1: Dr. Y performs O on M, T, and F mornings. This cannot be true because it violates Rule 2 that if Dr. Y performs O on M, she does not perform O on T.
Option 2: Dr. Y performs O on T, F, and S mornings. This cannot be true because it violates Rule 6 that Dr. Y does not perform O on S.
Hope this helps clear things up! Keep up the great work and please let us know if you have any further questions.
