If John receives the same grade in economics and Italian, and if he fails Russian, which one of the following must be...
sakshi_hJune 2, 2022
Confused About Placement of Letters?
Hello,
Are we to assume that every grade letter spot (base) does not need to be filled? Because in question 1 of this game, if E and I are receiving the same D grade, AND H and R are also receiving the same E grade, there are three spots left (grades A, B and C) for only 2 more subjects ( G and P, since 4 have already been assigned letter grades). This means that John will not have received one of these 3 letter grades for any subject.
Can I assume it as a rule of thumb that if the question and rules do not tell me that there must be one variable assigned to every spot in the base, that this means some spots can be left empty with no variable assigned to it? Can we make this assumption? Thank you!
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We indeed can assume that each of the 5 grades do not need to be filled. The only time that we can know that each position must be filled is if the game tells us so. We could have, for example in a game about people and time slots, a statement that "There are 5 slots and 5 people and only one person per slot" or that "there are 5 people and five slots, Every person is assigned to exactly one slot and no slot is assigned more than one person" or each slot is assigned at least one/exactly one person."
However, in the absence of any such statement, we have no idea what the distribution looks like. To answer your question, anything is possible until the rules or setup tells you that it is not- and nothing must be the case (i.e.one assigned to every grade) unless the game tells you that must be the case.
