Nursing schools cannot attract a greater number of able applicants than they currently do unless the problems of low ...
CristianStanleyFebruary 25, 2021
Either Or Statements
This question has either or in the question however I used the either/Or statement rule of (picking a variable x or y and making it the necessary condition and Step 2: negating the other variable and making it a sufficient condition) which was wrong in the explination. Do we only apply this rule when either or is at the begning of the sentence?
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Same here, I was thrown off with the second sentence containing both "if" and "either."
CarterJuly 18, 2021
Same. Also, question was posted on Feb 25 and still no explanation? Frustrating.
Brooke-SalgadoOctober 19, 2021
Why are there never responses on these message boards from LSAT MAX, this is very frustrating....
juliekattNovember 29, 2021
Yes, this is the same problem that tripped me up. Why hasn't anyone answered? I noticed answers are not provided where they are explained in the video, but this is not. The drill clearly says that Either/Or statements are written out by assigning one variable the necessary and the other one the sufficient and negating the sufficient. She did not write it out that way at all.
Now, I have to add that what she wrote out makes complete sense and it's what I would have written out prior to this training, but now I dutifully wrote it out as taught, but it did not apply here. Can you explain how we can know when to apply the Either/Or Rule and when not to? Thank you for taking the time to answer our question.
RaviFebruary 12, 2022
We have several conditional statements we can diagram with this stimulus:
1) problems not solved-->not attract more applicants
2) not attract more applicants-->lower standards or nurse shortage
3) lower standards or nurse shortage-->not maintain quality
We can combine statements 1, 2, and 3 into a transitive chain
Problems not solved-->not attract more applicants-->lower standards or nurse shortage-->not maintain quality
If the problems of high stress and low wages aren't solved, we see that the quality of care will not be maintained.
E works great because it can be diagrammed as
Problems not solved-->not maintain quality.
This is the exact same thing we got from out diagramming after combining the three statements, so it's the correct answer choice.
