Example 5 Answer C: Assigning "not" to moral and/or intelligent
"not moral and intelligent" in accordance with the lesson = "not moral, and intelligent". How did we make that assumption that the answer wasn't insinuating "not moral and NOT intelligent"?
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If a democracy functions well, the electorate is moral and the electorate is intelligent
Democracy function well--> electorate moral and electorate intelligent
The contrapositive of this is
Electorate not moral or electorate not intelligent-->democracy not function well
With C, we get the contrapositive. Remember, when you have compound statements, when you do the negate them, you change "and" to "or" and also negate each of the terms. Thus, C is correct.
When negating or statements, change the "or" to "and" and negate each statement as well.
