Suppose we are told that

is equivalent to
From this we suspect that we can express
by
using conjunction (&), disjunction (
) or negation (
) only.
First observe that
is equivalent to
therefore from what we are given in (*),
is equivalent to
We know that given two statements
and
(we use different letters to
distinguish these statements from the
and
above) by de Morgan's
Law about the negation of conjunctions,

is equivalent to
Therefore taking
as the first statement
and
as the
second statement
in de Morgan's Law we obtain

is equivalent to
Since
is equivalent to
and the
latter is equivalent to
we can say that

is equivalent to
The expression on the right hand side can be simplified by observing that
is equivalent to
. So as a result

is equivalent to