Question

If you have sea water, you can make salt.What is the contrapositive of this statement?

Answer 1

if you do not have sea water you can not make salt

Answer 2

' If you cannot make salt, you cannot have sea water. '

Explanation:

We are given the statement,

' If you have sea water, you can make salt. '

It is required to write the contrapositive statement of this given statement.

We know that, ' contrapositive statements ' switches the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional statement and negating them both.

Here, we have,

Hypothesis : If you have sea water

Conclusion : You can make salt.

So, we will switch and negate them both to obtain the contrapositive statement.

Hence, the contrapositive statement is,

' If you cannot make salt, you cannot have sea water. '