December 1992 LSAT Section 1 Question 11

If the fall oceanography orders are in folder 2, then for exactly how many of the remaining five folders can it be de...

BritneyS on December 4, 2023

Why would the answer not be 3?

If Fall O is folder 2, then Spring O is folder 1 which puts Fall math in folder 4. Folder three and folder four cannot have the same subjects so folder three must have nutrition. That would mean we know folders 1,2,3, and 4 being O, O, N, M, _, _. Did I read the premises wrong? Can you explain why the answer is 2?

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Emil-Kunkin on December 4, 2023

I find this is be a bit ambiguous, and your analysis is spot on. I think that when the question refers to course offerings, it means Ns or Of, as in both the semester and the subject. While we know the subject for N, that n could be in either semester, so we only know about the second o and m for sure.

That said, this really is ambiguously worded, but when in doubt, go back to the setup for how they used the term course offering. Since the setup mentions the six course offerings, I would read this as meaning how many of the six we can place in full.

@MichaelaJ on January 16 at 02:04AM

I am not quite understanding what the question is asking. Can you please clarify?

Emil-Kunkin on January 18 at 06:13PM

The question is asking us how many of the folders we can place for sure once we have placed the Fo in 2. Just a note on my earlier reply, I think the initial question was confused about how many total elements there were (three or six). For this question however, we are explicitly asked how many of the remaining five we can place, so not including the Fo in two.