I am currently going through the LG bundle and I have a difficult time solving In/Out games with subcategory under time pressure. During BR I noticed in several of these games when one of the subcategories (let's call it category X ) get fulled only by putting one item in, there is reoccurring inference. The inference is, any two item from any categories that have different items of category X as their necessary condition are in a either/or relationship.

This is probably obvious to you but could you please correct me if I am wrong? Do you think having such rules might help on the actual test?

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  • Monday, Aug 17 2020

    I've definitely seen games like this before but can't think of any off the top of my head. Does anyone have suggestions for which In/Out game you could practice this inference?

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  • Thursday, Apr 28 2016

    @kashibrandi609 Thanks for super fast comment and writing it out so clearly. This is exactly what I meant and thanks to you it is much more clear to me :)

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  • Thursday, Apr 28 2016

    Let me see if I understood this correctly.

    You have Ax, Bx, Cx and Dy, Ey and Fy.

    Only one x can be "in".

    You also have

    Dy-->Ax

    Ey-->Bx.

    You are asking if it's correct that

    Ey-->/Dy

    -------------------------------------

    Yes.

    Because you can write the fact that only one x is allowed as

    Ax-->/Bx

    Ax-->/Cx

    Bx-->/Cx

    Linking these (or their contrapositives) with the original premises you get:

    Ey-->Bx-->/Ax-->/Dy

    --------------------------------------------------

    That is actually a pretty advanced inference to make, so I think you're doing better than you might assume. This is exactly what the FoolProof is supposed to do, keep doing what you're doing!

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