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Q173 The soup won't have D only if it has G

by mharr Fri Jan 17, 2014 10:17 pm

I selected the incorrect answer which is ~D -> G. I chose this answer because "only if" introduces a necessary condition and G followed the necessary condition indicator. So I thought that D could not be selected unless G, the necessary condition, was selected. This is what the wrong answer captures but it's the wrong answer! The correct answer is D -> ~G. I don't understand why the correct answer is right.
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Re: Q173 The soup won't have D only if it has G

by rinagoldfield Tue Jan 21, 2014 12:17 pm

Hmmm, mharr, your reasoning seems pretty sound to me. ~D --> G should be the correct answer. Seems like you're getting errors. :( We're going to look into a glitch in the system; thanks for bringing this to our attention!
 
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Re: Q173 The soup won't have D only if it has G

by mharr Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:01 am

Thank you for the response! Some of those answers really threw me for a loop! I thought that my understanding of conditional relationships was completely wrong after taking the quiz.

I do not know if this matters or not, but I took the quiz using my phone. Maybe that has something to do with the errors?

Thank you again for the response.