SECTION 1

Time—35 minutes

24 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 1-5

On Wednesday a physician will have exactly one appointment with seven patients—P, Q, R, S, T, U, W—one patient per appointment. The schedule of appointments chronologically numbered 1 through 7, must meet the following conditions:

Q s appointment is at some time before P s appointment

U s appointment is at some time before P s appointment

Either R or T has appointment 3

S s appointment is either the appointment immediately before or the appointment immediately after R s appointment.

1. Which one of the following is an acceptable schedule of appointments in order from 1 to 7?

(A) Q, S, R, P, W, U, T
(B) Q, U, W, S, R, T, P
(C) S, Q, R, T, W, U, P
(D) T, U, R, S, W, P, Q
(E) U, Q, T, P, R, S, W

2. If W has appoinment 2 and P has appointment 5. then which one of the following must be true?

(A) R has appointment 6
(B) S has appointment 4
(C) S has appointment 7
(D) U has appointment 1
(E) U has appointment 4

3. If U s appointment is immediately after T s appointment and immediately before R s appointment, then which one of the following must be true?

(A) Q s appointment is at some time before P s appointment.
(B) S s appointment is at some time before P s appointment.
(C) S s appointment is immediately before Q s appointment
(D) W s appointment is immediately before P s appointment
(E) W s appointment is at some time before S s appointment

4. If P s appointment is immediately before S s appointment, then each of the following could be true EXCEPT:

(A) R s appointment is immediately before W s appointment
(B) T s appointment is immediately before Q s appointment
(C) U s appointment is immediately before P s appointment
(D) U s appointment is immediately before Q s appointment
(E) W s appointment is immediately before T s appointment

5. If T s appoinemtne is immediately after P s appointment and immediately before W s appointment, then which one of the following must be true?

(A) W s appointment is at some time before R s appointment.
(B) U s appointment is at some time before R s appointment.
(C) S s appointment is at some time before U s appointment.
(D) R s appointment is at some time before P s appointment.
(E) Q s appointment is at some time before S s appointment.