June 2007 LSAT Question Explanations June 2007 - Sec 1 - Ga...

June 2007 - Sec 1 - Game 2 - Setup

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The second game of the June 2007 LSAT states, Exactly three films Greed, Harvest, and
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Limelight are shown during a film club s festival held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
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Each film is shown at least once during the festival but never more than once on a given
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day. On each day at least one film is shown. Films are shown one at a time. The following
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conditions apply:
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So the first thing we know is that we have three films and those films are going to be
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Greed, Harvest, and Limelight.
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We also know that this festival is going to be held on three days, Thursday, Friday, and
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Saturday, and on each day at least one film is shown. Again, we have three days; Thursday,
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Friday, and Saturday. On each of these days, at least one of the films is shown. We also
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know that each film is shown at least once during the festival, so we know that we have
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at least one G, at least one H, and at least one L, but never more than once on any given
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day. Well, what that tells us is that we have at least one film shown every day, and max
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three, because we can't have any film show up more than once, so we have max three for
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each day because we can only have G, H, and L. No one can show up more than once.
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So at least one, max three, and now let's turn our attention to the conditions. The
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first condition tells us, On Thursday Harvest is shown and no film is shown after it on
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that day. We know Harvest is going to be on Thursday and we also know that if any other
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film is shown on Thursday it has to be shown before Harvest. Turning our attention to the
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second condition, On Friday, either Greed or Limelight but not both is shown, and no
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film is shown after it on that day. We know we had either Greed or Limelight but
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not both. You notice what that does is it changes our max three on Friday to a maximum
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of two now because we can't have both G and L. Again, as we saw previously, if anything
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is shown on that day, Friday, it must be shown before G or L.
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Moving to the third condition, On Saturday either Greed or Harvest but not both is shown
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and no film is shown after it on that day. So again on Saturday we have either Greed
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or Harvest but again not both, which again changes our max from three to two. Again,
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if any film shows up on Saturday, it must be played before G or H.
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There you have it. That is the setup for this game. Now that we have this setup, let's turn
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our attention to the questions.