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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Lexie needs to find a collectibles store that carries a stock of vintage autographed baseballs AND has one of the four specific names she is looking for. The AND operator will allow her to combine multiple search terms to narrow down her results. She does not need to use the OR operator because she is looking for all of these specific criteria, not just one or the other. She does not need to use the NOT operator because she is not looking to exclude any specific terms from her search. The NEAR operator would not be helpful in this context.

Lexie's Father Is Turning 50 in a Couple Weeks