|
|||
Personal Foul??
Testing for promotion this weekend. Study guides I am using have these questions with conflicting answers:
" A personal foul cannot occur during a dead ball." It says T " A personal foul can only occur during a live ball." It says F I say the first one is wrong and should be False because of the airborne shooter exception when the ball is dead. (4-19-1) Everyone agree or disagree with me?
__________________
That's my whistle -- and I'm sticking to it! |
|
|||
Quote:
Let's try and translate those sentences into logically equivalent ones: (1) If the ball is dead then a foul is not personal (2) If a foul is personal then the ball is alive Let's write A for "a foul is personal" and B for "the ball is alive". Then (1) becomes "If (not B) then (not A)", while (2) becomes "if A then B". Now it's well known that "If P then Q" is logically equivalent to "(not P) or Q". Then (1) is logically equivalent to "(not not B) or (not A)" while (2) is equivalent to "(not A) or B". It's now sufficient to remember that "(not not B)" is equivalent to "B". I've shown that the two sentences say exactly the same thing and it cannot happen that one is false and the other is true. Another proof that math is useful. Ciao |
|
|||
Quote:
I'm also going for promotion and with work and ref schedule, little time for study. What study guides are you using? Last edited by fullor30; Thu Dec 04, 2008 at 12:25pm. |
|
|||
Good luck, Bob. I'm sure you'll do fine.
PS: My letter must of worked... unlike some people on this forum (uhh, M&M - shhhh) I only sent one letter instead of two. Something tells me the second letter would not have worked. |
|
|||
Quote:
Good luck as well, Bob.
__________________
M&M's - The Official Candy of the Department of Redundancy Department. (Used with permission.) |
|
|||
Quote:
Last year's Part 2 and this year's Part 1
__________________
That's my whistle -- and I'm sticking to it! |
|
|||
Quote:
I was real pleased with the way that you begged them to let me apply for promotion. One of the other letters even offered a small bribe!
__________________
That's my whistle -- and I'm sticking to it! |
|
|||
Quote:
Wellllll, the things I do for fellow officials. |
Bookmarks |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
THIS is a personal foul. | Dan_ref | Basketball | 15 | Thu Feb 21, 2008 02:04pm |
Personal Foul, then Technical Foul | jdw3018 | Basketball | 7 | Sat Dec 02, 2006 05:35am |
Personal Foul | fonzzy07 | Football | 3 | Fri Sep 08, 2006 07:59am |
Personal foul? | glt1958 | Football | 11 | Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:21pm |
Simultaneous Personal Foul | shawnwil | Basketball | 15 | Tue Nov 12, 2002 06:23pm |