It is difficult to grow cacti in a humid climate. It is difficult to raise orange trees in a cold climate. In most pa...

BenMingov October 12, 2019

Hi Naty0405, thanks for the question!

I understand your issue with diagramming this statement and let me help to explain it.

Regardless, we can look at the statement "it is difficult to grow cacti in a humid climate" as "if/when it is humid, then it is hard to grow cacti"

This would create the second conditional diagram.

Hope this helps!

mprezzy December 30, 2019

Hi, I would like to piggy back and express my concern with how am I to know to diagram this passage as a "if/when it is humid, then statement"?

I diagrammed it like this:

GC -> not HC
HC -> not GC

GOT -> not CC
CC -> not GOT


Please help.

SOULCAGES71 October 10, 2020

Please try to explain this again. I am very confused here as well. The sentence reads: It is difficult to grow cacti in a humid climate.

I thought that in order to guarantee X, we bust have a valid Y.

Previous example:
Law School ---> LSAT (Y must exist before we can assume that X is valid). If we do not take the LSAT, then we can't go to Law School is a valid sufficient and necessary condition.

Difficult to Grow Cacti (DGC) ---> Humid Climate (HC) - (Y must exist before we can assume that X is valid). If we do not have a humid climate, then it is not difficult to grow cacti.

How do we guarantee the sufficient statement by saying that we have a humid climate because it is difficult to grow cacti?

Thank you,
Adam