Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 08:35 am, by: Blaine Hanson(Blaine)
Benny, I did a very similar example to this at a work seminar and you definitely have to count outside the sample text because it does not say not to, it does not say " in the text " ..... it is only your years of conditioning that suggests you should. A very similar example is we were told to run across the room as fast as we could with a very, very full glass of water. The objective - do not spill any. The first across without spilling wins. The person who " won" put their hand over the top to stop any spillage. Only one person in the group of 50 did this. They won. We complained, but they achieved the given objective. Again our years of conditioning said this was wrong, but we were wrong as the objective was given, it did not stipulate the "how". The moral of the story - become a lateral thinker. PS. Nice car, wish I could get mine that shiny.
Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 02:32 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
If it suggested nothing, what was it doing there? "used especially to mark antithesis, illustration, listing or quotation" [Concise Oxford]
Benny was reading English correctly. If Benny's interpretation was not intended, then the correct interpretation is mine. That is, the answer may be 6 or 20 but never 7.
In fact, if context is to have no meaning, then why restrict the count to the document? The question does not, it says 'Count every "F" '. The answer, therefore, is N, being the set of all Fs.
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Of course, I did cheat this time. 
