Question

Examine the following sentence:

"A team wins the playo s if it wins two games in a row or a total of three games." True/False:
in the sentence above, the word or is NOT used in its exclusive (XOR) sense.

Answer 1

True

Explanation:

Suppose that the team wins two games in a row AND a total of three games. Then, the team won the play anyway, because it satisfies at least one condition to be the winner. The "or" is used here to mean a disjunction.

It wouldn't make sense if the word "or" is used as an "exclusive or"; it would mean that the team loses after winning the games in two different. Additionally, the conditions "win two games in a row" and "win a total of 3 games" aren't mutually exclusive. For example, it could have been that the team won 3 games in a row (so both conditions are true) but lost afterwards.