Can we use `another` here?About the difference between `the other`and `another`
I recently read this passage:The Mirror newspaper looked at what three women spend their money on. The first of them, Jo, spends a lot of her money going to all her football team`s games. The second of the three, Lisa, spends a lot of her money on food. The other woman in the survey,, the third one, Claire, spends her cash on her home. My question is `can we use `another` instead of `the other` in the last sentence?
We are often told that `the other` is referred to the person or thing of two or the rest of a group. Here if we use `the other` in the sentence what does it mean?

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Can we use `another` here?About the difference between `the other`and `another`
I recently read this passage:The Mirror newspaper looked at what three women spend their money on. The first of them, Jo, spends a lot of her money going to all her football team`s games. The second of the three, Lisa, spends a lot of her money on food. The other woman in the survey,, the third one, Claire, spends her cash on her home. My question is `can we use `another` instead of `the other` in the last sentence? 
We are often told that `the other` is referred to the person or thing of two or the rest of a group. Here if we use `the other` in the sentence what does it mean?

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ANother refers to one of many possibilities. THE other refers to the one only possibility . Other (in this situation) means 'that has/have not been mentioned.
The article mentions that they surveyed 3 women. They explicitly mention the first two, so after that, there is only one that is unmentioned. So she is the only one that they can then refer to - so she is THE other. If they hadn't mentioned that only 3 had been surveyed, or had said a larger number, then there would be an unknown number left that had not been explicitly mentioned, so she would then be 'another'.

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