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Question
Rewrite the following statements in the form of conditional statements:
Mohan will be a good student if he studies hard.
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Solution
The given statement is of the form “q if p”, where
p: Mohan studies hard.
q: He will be a good student.
It is an equivalent form (Remark (b) 14.1.12) of the statement “if p then q”.
So the equivalent formulation of the given statement is
“If Mohan studies hard, then he will be a good student”.
(Here, note that in p he is replaced by Mohan and in q Mohan is replaced by he)
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