Doctor Yamata

Started by Anna20 · started 2020-08-19 17:12 · last activity 2020-09-04 18:01 · 1 reply

I'm totally confused with this game - sorry for the next question! As I noted in my previous question, in my set up, Doctor Yamata has to treat patients in the afternoon on Saturday and conduct research on Saturday morning - how can the answer be E? And why would it not be B? Thanks very much!!

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  1. Victoria · 2020-09-04 18:01

    Hi @Anna2020, No need to apologize - we're here and happy to help! See my response to your previous question for the full game set-up. I think you may have self-imposed a condition where Dr. Y must perform two different activities each day and this may be contributing to your confusion with this game. As outlined in my previous explanation, we can combine our Option 2 AM and Option 1 PM to get answer choice (E). AM: R O O O P PM: L L P P P M T W F S Notice that this meets all of the conditions and satisfies the question stem's requirement that Dr. Y performs O on T: 1) Dr. Y performs O on exactly three mornings: T, W, and F 2) Dr. Y does not perform O on M, so this condition is moot. 3) Dr. Y does L in the afternoon on two consecutive calendar days: M and T. 4) Dr. Y treats P on S morning and W, F, and S afternoons. 5) Dr. Y conducts R on exactly one morning: M. 6) Dr. Y only treats P on S; she neither does L nor performs O on S. Answer choice (B) cannot be correct because it requires us to violate a rule. AM: _ O P _ _ PM: P _ P _ P M T W F S We know that Dr. Y must perform O on exactly three mornings. This leaves us with two options. Option 1: Dr. Y performs O on M, T, and F mornings. This cannot be true because it violates Rule 2 that if Dr. Y performs O on M, she does not perform O on T. Option 2: Dr. Y performs O on T, F, and S mornings. This cannot be true because it violates Rule 6 that Dr. Y does not perform O on S. Hope this helps clear things up! Keep up the great work and please let us know if you have any further questions.

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