Re: Activities Requirement for First Class
Thomas W. Strong Jr. (strong@DEMENTIA.ORG)
Tue, 20 Aug 1996 11:52:27 -0400
On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Paul S. Wolf wrote:
> > Please provide an interpretation of the activities requirement for 1st
> >Class. For 10 activities, 3 of which included an overnight campout:
> >Does that mean NO MORE THAN 3 of the 10 may be overnight campouts, OR
> >AT LEAST 3 must be overnight campouts.
> >
> >In other words, if a scout participated in 5 service/activities and 5
> >separate overnight campouts, would this suffice (or would only the first
> >three overnight campouts count and then the scout would need two more
> >activities other than campouts?)
> The actual wording is as follows:
> 3. Since joining, have participated in ten separate
> troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol
> meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
> I would interpret it as a MINIMUM of 3 campouts. But I could be wrong.
I would agree that the interpretation is a minimum of 3 events including
campouts - to make sure, try numbers larger and smaller than 3, and see
if the sentence seems true:
10 events, 1 campout - there are obviously not three campouts here, so
three of the events did not include an overnight campout. This soesn't
fulfill the requirement.
10 events, 3 campouts - this is exactly what the requirements say, so it
works.
10 events, 5 campouts - 3 of the 10 campouts can be chosen (arbitrarily) as
the three that will fulfill the requirement, the other two can be
ignored, reducing this situation to the previous one of 10 events and 3
campouts, which is acceptable :-)
If the phrase had been re-written as "at least 10 events, 7 of which
_DID_NOT_ include an overnight campout", then I'd lean toward the opposite
conclusion, but given the wording, it looks pretty clearly like a minimum
situation. Just take the phrase apart into its two halves - "10 events"
and "3 campouts", and see if both of them can be checked off.
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