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[Administrator]

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[BostonLawGuy]

Is there any "best" approach with an acceptability question like this where only the last 4 items are shown?

I was able to eliminate a few of the answer choices just by looking at the last 4 items, but for most I had to brute force and check each one with a different game board to check for violations.

[Brook Miscoski]

Boston,

For this game, it may be somewhat difficult to list out a great many inferences. For a question like #1, that is no big deal. Just apply each rule in turn.

l>h eliminates (A)
ps/sp eliminates (B)
there is no obvious reason to eliminate (C)
t in 1 or 7 eliminates (D)
r or t in 1 eliminates (E)

Applying each rule in turn will often be sufficient to do those type of list questions. If you want to think of that as brute force, then I guess it's brute force, but I think of it as applying the rules one by one to the remaining answer choices. I don't evaluate each answer against all the rules (which would be brute force and an annoying memory task), I just ask myself to apply one rule at a time and cross out losers.

[BostonLawGuy]

OK, thanks, that's a better approach than placing each of the 4 given elements into a 7 slot game board and looking for inferences. THANKS