Daily Drills 33 - Section 33 - Question 4

P: A → XP: not Y → not B P: ?C: A → Y

kwnda21@gmail.com August 22, 2023

Why not B--->x?

How do you conclude that B cannot come first in this? I got B--->X and am confused as to why this is wrong. Thank you.

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Emil-Kunkin August 24, 2023

Hi, let's look at the two possible chains linking X and B.

The right answer here is If X then B.

A -> X
X -> B
B -> Y
So, if A, then Y.

This doesn't work if we simply reverse the b X statement. If we have b -> x, we would know that if B is true then both x and y are true, but we wouldn't be able to link that with anything else.