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Taking the long view on your education, you go to the Prestige Corporation and ask what you should do in college to be hired when you graduate. The personnel director replies that you will be hired only if you major in mathematics or computer science, get a B average or better, and take accounting. You do, in fact, become a math major, get a B+ average, and take accounting. You return to Prestige Corporation, make a formal application, and are turned down. Did the personnel director lie to you?

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Answer:

On logical Terms, Personal Director did not lie to you.

Step-by-step explanation:

For this question to be understood, you must take into account that how the phrase "only if" is used to relate sentences in formal logic.

Now you should remember that "P only if Q means" if P then Q.

Hence implying the same concept as mentioned above, here in this question,  what the personal director really intended to convey was "If you are hired, then you  have majored in mathematics or computer science, get a B average or better, and take  accounting”.

Now we should remember that, this statement is not logically equivalent to "If you major in mathematics or  computer science, get a B average or better and take accounting, then you will be hired".

Hence on logical grouds, Personal director did not lie to you. You were not attentive enough to sort out the turgid strategy he utilized.

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