SHSAT Logic: Practice 1

1. Five different subject textbooks are placed one on top of each other.They are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 from bottom to top.1. One of the textbooks is Algebra
2. Below the Chemistry textbook are exactly two other textbooks, one of which is the Spanish textbook
3. Between the Spanish textbook and the History textbook are exactly three other textbooks.

Which subject textbook is on top?

2. Chris plays guitar and Jordan has brown eyes. The person who plays basketball has black hair, but the person with green eyes does not play basketball. Which of the following statements must be true?

3. Five people are on line at the bus stop. There are 3 men (Rick, Sonny, and Ken) and 2 women (Monica and Lucy). It is raining out, and four of them are using an umbrella (black, blue, green, yellow), one of them a raincoat.1. No man is standing next to another man; no woman is standing next to another woman.
2. The raincoat user is not male.
3. Lucy is using the blue umbrella and is second to last in line.

What position is the raincoat user in?

4. In a Spanish class for non-native speakers, students who have already studied another foreign language do much better than those who have had no previous foreign language training. After about half a year, both groups perform at the same level.

Based on the information above, which of the following statements is a valid conclusion?