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22 Apr 2010, 13:02
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(1) The number of players who play soccer and golf is half of the players who play each of the rest two games
The wording in (1) completely smashed me.
The wording in (1) completely smashed me.
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This is a badly-worded exercise, as well as logically incorrect in its phrasing. I had to skip this exercise during the diagnostic test.
The OA is fine, but I had to read it to actually understand the question.
All the problems are in this statement
"The number of players who play soccer and golf is half of the players who play each of the rest two games "
which is completely meaningless.
1) Reading the OA, what you meant to say is this: "The number of players who only play soccer and golf..."
Why? For the same reason that "6p players play soccer" means "6p players play soccer, or soccer and another sport, or all 3 sports". So the meaning of the word "only" is absolutely critical if you want the OA to actually be correct.
2) As other posters pointed out, "players who play each of the rest two games" has no meaning in English (or even if translated in any other language).
3) Grammar parallelism rules need to be followed. So compare a "number of a player" with another "number of players" not with just "players".
I would write statement as (1):
"The number of players who play soccer and golf but not tennis is half the number of players who play any other combination of two sports."
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The OA is fine, but I had to read it to actually understand the question.
All the problems are in this statement
"The number of players who play soccer and golf is half of the players who play each of the rest two games "
which is completely meaningless.
1) Reading the OA, what you meant to say is this: "The number of players who only play soccer and golf..."
Why? For the same reason that "6p players play soccer" means "6p players play soccer, or soccer and another sport, or all 3 sports". So the meaning of the word "only" is absolutely critical if you want the OA to actually be correct.
2) As other posters pointed out, "players who play each of the rest two games" has no meaning in English (or even if translated in any other language).
3) Grammar parallelism rules need to be followed. So compare a "number of a player" with another "number of players" not with just "players".
I would write statement as (1):
"The number of players who play soccer and golf but not tennis is half the number of players who play any other combination of two sports."
