"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."– George Wash...

sharpen7 April 10, 2018

Explaination please

Why do you negate this and put not?

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Mehran April 16, 2018

Hi @sharpen7, thanks for your post.

As explained in the correct answer choice (C), the word "when" introduces a sufficient condition.

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way" = DCTUW

"you will command the attention of the world" = CAW

So the positive of George Washington Carver's statement is diagrammed:
DCTUW ==> CAW

The contrapositive is not CAW ==> not DCTUW

The contrapositive is given as answer choice (C). Because the contrapositive is logically equivalent to the positive, it is the right answer.

Hope this helps. Please let us know if you have any additional questions.