Question
Questions that involve analytical reasoning—better known as “logic games”—tend to inspire fear in most test takers. These games give the most trouble to test
takers who haven’t defined a specific method for solving these problems. The best way to attack logic games
is to have a plan. When solving the problems in this set, try the following strategy:
1. Know the rules of the logic game and what each rule means.
2. Draw up an easy-to-reference diagram that includes all of the game’s information.
3. Look for common elements in the rules; you can combine these to make deductions.
4. Read the questions carefully; be sure you know
A cinema complex with six movie theaters never shows the same movie in more than one theater. None of the theaters is the same size as any other, with number 1 being the largest and going in order to number 6, the smallest. The theater also has the following rules:
It will never show more than two R-rated movies at once.
It will always show at least one G-rated movie and one PG-rated movie in the two middle sized theaters (theaters 3 and 4).
It will never show more than one foreign film at a time and never in the biggest theater.
The starting times of movies will be staggered by fifteen minutes and will always be on thequarter hour.
Employees need twenty minutes between showings to clean the theaters.
The cinema has the following films to choose from this particular week:
Shout, rated R
Que Pasa, a Spanish film rated PG
Abra Cadabra, rated G
Lessons, rated R
Jealousy, rated PG
Mist, a Swedish film rated R
Trek, rated NC-17
Fly, rated G
The movies this week are showing in the following theaters:
Theater 1: Shout
Theater 2: Trek
Theater 3: Abra Cadabra
Theater 4: Jealousy
Theater 5: Fly
Theater 6: Mist
Shout is doing the most business, followed by Trek and, to the management’s surprise, Mist. The management wants to move Mist to a larger theater. Which theater is the most logical?
