The statement 'Humans eat cows, cows eat grass, humans eat grass' demonstrates which property?

• A. Transitive property
• B. Reciprocal property
• C. Cardinal numbers
• D. Ordinal numbers

Answer: (A)

This demonstrates a transitive relationship: if A is related to B and B is related to C, then A is related to C. Here, humans eat cows (A relates to B) and cows eat grass (B relates to C), so humans eat grass (A relates to C). Treating the eating relation as transitive shows how the indirect links imply a direct connection.

The other ideas don’t fit: reciprocal would mean the relation goes both ways (if A eats B, B eats A), which isn’t implied here. Cardinal numbers and ordinal numbers are about counting and ordering, not about inferencing one relation from another.