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Problem With Logic - Substituting OR's and AND's and Negation

I am having trouble proving a logical problem (Exercise 1.26a from Elliott Mendelson's book 'Introduction to Logic'). The problem is as follows.

"If C is a statement involving only ~, AND and OR, and C` arises from C by replacing each AND with OR and each OR with AND, show that C is tautology if and only if ~C` is a tautology."

Here is my attempt:

First show only if.

Suppose there is a statement C which is A AND B (to take a simple case) and C is tautology.

then C` is equivalent to A OR B and C is always true

then ~C` is equivalent to ~(A OR B ) and A AND B is always true

then ~C` is equivalent to ~A AND ~B (~(A OR B ) is equivalent to ~A AND ~B) and A AND B is always true.

To me this does not lead to showing that ~C` is a tautology. Where have I gone wrong?

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