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Development Tools Console Foundations Users and Permissions File Ownership

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Question about Conflicting Permissions in Quiz Question from Console Foundations

Quiz Question: "If a file has the permissions "-r-x-w----" and the ownership is "user:treehouse, group:teachers" and I am the user "mike" and I belong to the group "teachers", may I write to this file?"

I'm seeing a potential conflicting permissions issue here. We only know about the permissions with user Treehouse, but I'm not clear which permission overrides which. User Treehouse can only read a file whereas the Group Teachers can only execute the file....so what is the ultimate permission of user:treehouse, group:teachers? We also have no clue what permission(s) Mike has. So how do we know for sure that Mike has the same access level as Treehouse simply because they share the same group?