June 1996 LSAT Section 1 Question 5

If the inspection of R is scheduled for the day immediately before the inspection of F, which one of the following mu...

Anna20 on February 11, 2021

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Hello Team How do you recommend we approach this question - I tried to test and pick answer choices, and ended up thinking it was C because I had eliminated D? Many thanks!

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Emil-Kunkin on December 1 at 02:53PM

When you see a scenario question like this, that is, one that introduces a new condition in the question, always play it out as far as you can. Here, the new condition is that R is right before f, and since f is either 1 or 6, this means that r must be 5 and f must be 6. We also know q is 4 since it must come right before r. From this we also know that g cannot be 3.