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SECTION I
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Time—35 minutes
20 Questions

Directions: Each group of questions in this section is based on a set of conditions. In answering some of the questions, it may be
useful to draw a rough diagram. Choose the response that most accurately and completely answers each question and blacken
the corresponding space on your answer sheet.

Questions 1–6 1. Which one of the following could be an accurate list of

the pencils used, from first to fifth?
Meena has six colored pencils—green, maroon, orange, red,
white, and yellow. She sketches a drawing using exactly five (A) orange, green, red, maroon, yellow
of the six pencils, one pencil at a time. The following (B) red, green, orange, white, maroon
conditions must hold: (C) red, orange, maroon, white, green
No pencil is used more than once. (D) white, red, orange, green, maroon
Either the maroon or the yellow pencil is not used. (E) white, yellow, orange, green, red
The red pencil is used at some time before the green.
The red pencil is used at some time before either the
orange or the yellow, but not before both.
The green pencil is used at some time before either the
maroon or the white, but not before both. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.

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5. Which one of the following CANNOT be the color of
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the third pencil used?
(A) The maroon pencil is used first, whereas the
white is used second. (A) green
(B) The white pencil is used first, whereas the green (B) maroon
is used second. (C) red
(C) The yellow pencil is used first, whereas the (D) white
orange is used second. (E) yellow
(D) The yellow pencil is used first, whereas the
orange is used fourth. 6. Suppose that the condition that either the maroon or the
(E) The yellow pencil is used fourth, whereas the yellow pencil is not used no longer holds. If all other
maroon is used fifth. conditions remain in effect, then which one of the
following could be an accurate list of the pencils used,
3. Which one of the following CANNOT be the color of from first to fifth?
the fifth pencil used?
(A) maroon, red, green, orange, yellow
(A) green (B) maroon, yellow, red, green, white
(B) maroon (C) orange, green, red, yellow, maroon
(C) orange (D) orange, red, maroon, green, white
(D) white (E) white, red, green, maroon, yellow
(E) yellow

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(B) maroon, red, green, white, yellow
(C) red, green, orange, white, yellow
(D) red, white, orange, green, maroon
(E) white, red, maroon, green, orange
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Questions 7–12
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7. Which one of the following could be a complete and
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accurate list of the kinds of birds in the sanctuary?
A bird sanctuary contains birds of at least two of the
following six kinds—kingfishers, mynas, peacocks, robins, (A) kingfishers, mynas
sparrows, and woodpeckers. No other kinds of birds are in the (B) peacocks, woodpeckers
sanctuary. The following conditions must hold: (C) kingfishers, robins, sparrows
Woodpeckers are not in the sanctuary if mynas are. (D) mynas, peacocks, robins
Peacocks are not in the sanctuary if robins are. (E) mynas, peacocks, sparrows
Either robins or woodpeckers, but not both, are in the
sanctuary.
Woodpeckers are in the sanctuary if kingfishers, sparrows, or
both are in the sanctuary.
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11. If there are no robins in the sanctuary, then which one of

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that could be in the sanctuary? the following is a kind of bird that CANNOT be in the
sanctuary?
(A) two
(B) three (A) kingfishers
(C) four (B) mynas
(D) five (C) peacocks
(E) six (D) sparrows
(E) woodpeckers
9. If both kingfishers and sparrows are in the sanctuary,
then each of the following could be true EXCEPT: 12. If peacocks are in the sanctuary, then which one of
the following must be true?
(A) Exactly three kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.
(B) Exactly four kinds of birds are in the sanctuary. (A) Exactly two kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.
(C) There are peacocks in the sanctuary. (B) Exactly three kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.
(D) There are robins in the sanctuary. (C) Exactly four kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.
(E) There are woodpeckers in the sanctuary. (D) There are no kingfishers in the sanctuary.
(E) There are no mynas in the sanctuary.
10. If there are no kingfishers in the sanctuary, then which
one of the following must be true?
(A) There are no sparrows in the sanctuary.
(B) There are no woodpeckers in the sanctuary.

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(C) There are peacocks in the sanctuary. GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.
(D) At least three kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.
(E) At most three kinds of birds are in the sanctuary.

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Questions 13–16
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13. Which one of the following could be an accurate
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matching of the stores to the exact number of computers
Last year, seven stores—Faroj’s Appliances, Good Buy, each sold last year?
Intelligent Office, LANs for Less, Networks Unlimited,
Silicon Village, and Uptown Computing—each sold exactly (A) Faroj’s Appliances: 100
100, 200, 300, 400, or 500 computers, consistent with the Good Buy: 200
following conditions: Intelligent Office: 300
Good Buy sold exactly the same number of computers as LANs for Less: 400
Networks Unlimited did. Networks Unlimited: 200
Intelligent Office sold exactly the same number of Silicon Village: 500
computers as Uptown Computing did. Uptown Computing: 300
Neither Faroj’s Appliances nor Silicon Village sold exactly (B) Faroj’s Appliances: 100
the same number of computers as any other store. Good Buy: 200
LANs for Less sold more computers than Uptown Intelligent Office: 400
Computing did. LANs for Less: 300
Intelligent Office sold more computers than Good Buy Networks Unlimited: 200
did. Silicon Village: 500
Uptown Computing: 400
(C) Faroj’s Appliances: 500
Good Buy: 200
Intelligent Office: 300
LANs for Less: 400

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Networks Unlimited: 500
Silicon Village: 100
Uptown Computing: 300

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(D) Faroj’s Appliances: 500
Good Buy: 300
Intelligent Office: 200
LANs for Less: 400
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Silicon Village: 100
Uptown Computing: 200
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Good Buy: 300
Intelligent Office: 400
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exactly 400 computers last year?
(A) Faroj’s Appliances sold more computers last year
(A) Faroj’s Appliances than Good Buy did.
(B) Good Buy (B) Intelligent Office sold more computers last year
(C) Intelligent Office than Silicon Village did.
(D) Silicon Village (C) LANs for Less sold more computers last year
(E) Uptown Computing than Faroj’s Appliances did.
(D) Silicon Village sold more computers last year
15. Which one of the following stores CANNOT have sold than Good Buy did.
exactly 200 computers last year? (E) Uptown Computing sold more computers last
(A) Faroj’s Appliances year than Networks Unlimited did.
(B) Good Buy
(C) Intelligent Office
(D) LANs for Less
(E) Silicon Village
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Questions 17–20
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17. Which one of the following could be a complete and
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accurate list of the leases of the student houses, ordered
Arbutus College owns exactly four houses that it leases to from the student house closest to campus to the student
faculty or students. Of these houses, no two are exactly the house farthest from campus?
same distance from Arbutus’s campus, and each house is
either a student house (occupied entirely by students) or a (A) one semester, one semester
faculty house (occupied entirely by faculty). The lease length (B) two semesters, three semesters
for each house is one, two, or three semesters. The following (C) one semester, two semesters, one semester
conditions must hold: (D) one semester, two semesters, two semesters, one
No student house has a three-semester lease. semester
At least two houses each have longer leases than does (E) one semester, two semesters, three semesters,
the house closest to campus. two semesters
Every student house (if there are any) is farther from
campus than any faculty house (if there are any).

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than that of each of the other houses, then which one houses that are neither the house farthest from campus
of the following could be true? nor the house closest to campus?
(A) Each faculty house has a two-semester lease. (A) At least one of them has a lease the same length
(B) Exactly two houses each have a one-semester as that of the house closest to campus.
lease. (B) At least one of them has a lease longer than that
(C) Exactly three houses each have a two-semester of the house closest to campus.
lease. (C) At least one of them has a lease shorter than three
(D) None of the houses has a one-semester lease. semesters.
(E) None of the houses has a two-semester lease. (D) Neither of them is a student house.
(E) Both of them are student houses.
19. What is the maximum number of houses that could all be
student houses with two-semester leases?
(A) zero
(B) one
(C) two
(D) three
(E) four

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IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, YOU MAY CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS SECTION ONLY.
DO NOT WORK ON ANY OTHER SECTION IN THE TEST.

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