Question

For each of these sentences, determine whether an inclusive or, or an exclusive or, is intended. Explain your answer.

a. Experience with C or Java is required.
b. Lunch includes soup or salad.
c. To enter the country you need a passport or a voter registration card.
d. Publish or perish

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Inclusive or

b. Exclusive or

c. Inclusive or

d. Exclusive or

Step-by-step explanation:

Simply put in sentence, Exclusive or means either this or that, but not both. Inclusive or means either this, or that, or both.

a. Inclusive or

Experience with C or Java is required intend the recruiter is expecting a minimum of one of the two programming language. This means you must be experienced in either C or Java or both.

b. Exclusive or

    Lunch includes soup or salad. You have either soup or salad to choose from for lunch. You can not choose both at a time.

c. Inclusive or

   To enter the country you need a passport or a voter registration card. It implies you need either your passport or a voter registration card whereas you can still have both your passport or a voter registration card.

d. Exclusive or

Publish or perish. It is very simple it either you publish or you perish. Both events cannot occur at the same time.