Question #2244

Answer-choice B: Biconditional?

Started by Mazen · started 2022-06-16 11:32 · last activity 2022-06-21 00:36 · 2 replies

Hi, Is the first sentence in B a biconditional? The first sentence is: "The only times that the hospital's emergency room staff attends to relatively less serious emergencies are times when there is no critical emergency to attend to." Thank you Mazen

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  1. jakennedy · 2022-06-18 15:32

    Hi @Mazen, Not quite. A biconditional needs to work both ways. In this case, we would need to be able to say: No critical emergency ? emergency room staff attends to less serious emergencies I imagine this is true in the real world. If the staff isn’t attending to serious emergencies, I’m sure they attend to less serious emergencies. They are the emergency staff after all. However, the answer choice does not tell us that. The answer choice diagrams the other way: emergency room staff attends to less serious emergencies ? no critical emergency Since it never explicitly tells us that the relationship can be reversed, we cannot diagram it as a biconditional.

  2. Mazen · 2022-06-21 00:36

    Thank You Jacob! Mazen

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