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Old Mon Aug 20, 2007, 12:50pm
rwest rwest is offline
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Originally Posted by Dakota
If you expect umpire exams to follow logic, you'll never score 100%. Too may of the questions require you to get inside the test-writer's head and try to guess (yes, guess) which answer would be "counted" wrong (as opposed to actually BEING wrong).

My "speeding" statement is correct as written. It does not say "must be red" only that the speeding car is red. It is still a speeding car, even though it is red. Red cars have no exemption from the speed laws.
I agree with you that you have to get inside the test writers head.

However, your statement about your speeding example is wrong. Your statement says....

A car is speeding if it is exceeding the speed limit and it is red.

The "and" is combining two conditions. It is not simple modifying the car by designating its color. I'm a software engineer. If I wrote a program that gave out speeding tickets using your statement, only red cars going over the speed limit would get a ticket. Your statement has two conditions for a speeding vehicle: 1. it is going over the speed limit. 2. it is red.

Both have to be true.
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