arvind910619 wrote:
Hi Please explain why C is the correct answer
Here is the comprehensive explanation
Remember, “A unless B” is the equivalent
of ~B—>A. The first sentence in the passage
can be depicted as
~BD—>BG
where B D stands for “the administration
allows the band director to keep his teaching
position” and BG stands for “Students at
Lincoln High School will boycott graduation
ceremonies.” The second sentence contains an
implied if-then statement. It can be stated as
follows: “If the administration allows the band
director to keep his teaching position, then it
will have to eliminate one of the new coaching
positions.” This can be depicted as
BD—>EC
Of course, EC stands for “it will have to eliminate
one of the new coaching positions.” As presented,
the two diagrammed statements cannot be connected. However, let’s suppose the high school
students do not boycott graduation ceremonies,
which is selection (C). If we apply the contrapositive to the first diagram, ~BD—>BG, the
statement becomes
~BG—>BD
Then we can use the transitive property to
combine ~BG—>BD with BD—>EC to yield
the following diagram:
~BG—>EC
That is, if the students don’t boycott graduation
ceremonies, then a new coaching position will
be eliminated. Thus, the correct assumption is
that the students will not boycott graduation
ceremonies. The answer is selection (C).
sajid your explanation above seems quite acceptable , but can you clarify what i am thinking about it
if the administrator allows band director then high schools students will not boycott ceremonies , which means students want band director to keep teaching .
that's why if new position will be eliminated then it must be true that the band director is still teaching so this can be true when we assume that students are not boycotting .
but i have a doubt too , say students want the band director and the administration does not , then how it can be true that without boycotting administration allows band director to keep teaching , i am so confused