The table ranks the urgency of, and local expertise and resources for,

I am confused by action 3 since it's said - if X is higher than Y by one or more standards, then X will take priority over Y. Urgency of action 3 already higher than action 4 so why the answer is maynot

Firstly in all the categories ranking should match atleast and to make it apple to apple comparison.

Secondly in order to take priority it any one or more category ranking should exceed in order to take the priority.

So simply said it ranking should be similar in all three categories and higher in order to take the priority.

Hope this clarifies

Thanks for the reply and in that case does it mean the second line is totally irrelevant? 'higher than Y by one or more standards, then X will take priority over Y.'

or another scenario I could think of is when two categoryies having items rank the same, except for one and that determines the decision? Is that what you are trying to say?

Firstly in all the categories ranking should match atleast and to make it apple to apple comparison.

Secondly in order to take priority it any one or more category ranking should exceed in order to take the priority.

So simply said it ranking should be similar in all three categories and higher in order to take the priority.

Hope this clarifies[/quote]

Thanks for the reply and in that case does it mean the second line is totally irrelevant? 'higher than Y by one or more standards, then X will take priority over Y.'

or another scenario I could think of is when two categoryies having items rank the same, except for one and that determines the decision? Is that what you are trying to say?[/quote]

Yeah second line is irrelevant and just to make the question stem confusing.

In simple terms all the 3 categories need to have same ranking to qualify.

For e.g.

Action Category - 1 Category - 2
A-1. 2 3
A-2. 3 3

In the above example A-2 will have priority over A-1. A-2 ranks are => A-1 ranks in both the categories.

Hope this helps.

Can someone say the directions in simple english? I think the difficulty of this problem stems from it being so convoluted in its description of the directions.

This is such a poorly written question in my opinion. How are we supposed to know that the comparison is from Action 4 (X) to either Action 2 or 3 (Y). The way the question is written it sounds like we are being asked if either action 2 or 3 would take action over action 4, and thus making action 2/3 the X variable and action 4 the Y variable. Bunuel any input or am I clearly missing something. (I am also disregarding the action 1 question as that is straight forward)

 

Firstly, this is an official question, and its wording is as good and precise as it gets.

Forget about X and Y. The highlighted part in the stem means that when comparing any two actions, if an action has at least as high standards as the second action in all three standards, and it surpasses the second action in one or more standards, then the first action takes priority over the second action.

We are comparing Action 4 with Actions 1, 2, and 3:

Hope it's clear.­