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Lesson: Intermediate Problem Solving - 15

The Roman Numeral Question

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Our last special format problem is the Roman Numeral question. These questions ask the test taker to categorize a series of statements as true or false based on information provided in the question stem. Here's an example:

In which of the following pairs are the two numbers equivalent?

I. and
II. and
III. and 243

None
II only
III only
I and II
I, II, and III

Notice that the answer choices place the statements in different groupings; we can use this to our advantage. By evaluating just one statement, we can eliminate at least one answer choice, and often more than one.

How do we know which statement to evaluate first? Here are two rules of thumb:


  • Evaluate the simpler statements first. It's often the case that one statement is much harder to evaluate than the other two. If you leave that till last, it may turn out that you won't even need to evaluate it.
  • Evaluate the statement that appears most often in the answer choices. That may allow you to eliminate multiple choices with only one statement evaluation.

Let's apply our guidelines to the example question.
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