Lexie's Father Is Turning 50 in a Couple Weeks

question 46

Multiple Choice

Lexie's father is turning 50 in a couple weeks. She wants to mark the day with a very special gift. Her father is a huge baseball fan, so she decides to get him an autographed baseball. But not just any baseball--she wants one autographed by someone from their hometown team that was playing in the majors when her father was born.
-At last, Lexie is satisfied with her list. She now still needs to buy a baseball. After doing more Web searches, she has narrowed the list to four favorite players. She now must search the Web to find (1) a collectibles store that carries (2) a stock of vintage autographed baseballs and has (3) one of the four names on her list. She will most likely need to use her search engine's variant of the ____ and ____ Boolean operators to meet all of these requirements.

• A) AND, OR
• B) AND, NOT
• C) OR, NOT
• D) AND, NEAR

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