People may enter a contest UNLESS they are less than 21 years old, make more than $100,000, or live in Ohio. The boolean expression is grouped so that it is true when a person CAN enter the contest.

A good answer might be:

!( age < 21 || pay > 100000 || home.equals("Ohio") )

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The short-circuit AND operator
Side effects.
The non-short-circuit AND operator
The short-circuit OR operator
The non-short-circuit OR operator
Associativity of &&
Boolean expressions with mixed logical operators.
precedence of logial operators.
pure function.
Subexpressions in a boolean expression.

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