Either Or Statements

I second this question^^^

Please answer this question!

Same here, I was thrown off with the second sentence containing both "if" and "either."

Same. Also, question was posted on Feb 25 and still no explanation? Frustrating.

Why are there never responses on these message boards from LSAT MAX, this is very frustrating....

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.

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.