We work backwards using "if and ONLY if" between steps: First we only observe (not assume!!) about the answer we are supposed to get, which is this:, that we could have gotten that if and ONLY if this were true: And we could have gotten that if and ONLY if this were true: But we know that would have been true if and ONLY if were true. But that IS GIVEN true, so must be true. PROVED! Edwin