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Inversion of Configuration - Opening of Epoxide

This doesn't look like a traditional inversion of configuration:

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At first I dismissed the textbook author as making a typo. But then I realized that this "typo" was repeated throughout the solutions manual.

So I tried drawing a Sawhorse projection of the textbook's answer and my answer, and I found that both are equivalent.

So would my answer also be acceptable? In my answer I change the methyl from a wedge to dashes and the hydrogen from dashes to wedge and I place the SH group appropriately.