Conditional Forms
1. **State the problem:** We are given the conditional statement: "The dog barks if it sees a stranger." We need to express its contrapositive, converse, and inverse.
2. **Identify the components:** Let:
- $p$: The dog sees a stranger.
- $q$: The dog barks.
The original statement is: "If $p$, then $q$" or symbolically, $p \to q$.
3. **Converse:** The converse of $p \to q$ is $q \to p$.
- "If the dog barks, then it sees a stranger."
4. **Inverse:** The inverse of $p \to q$ is $\neg p \to \neg q$.
- "If the dog does not see a stranger, then it does not bark."
5. **Contrapositive:** The contrapositive of $p \to q$ is $\neg q \to \neg p$.
- "If the dog does not bark, then it does not see a stranger."
**Final answers:**
- Converse: "If the dog barks, then it sees a stranger."
- Inverse: "If the dog does not see a stranger, then it does not bark."
- Contrapositive: "If the dog does not bark, then it does not see a stranger."