DISCRETE MATHEMATICS WITH
APPLICATIONS ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE
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●● conjunction
Answer: "and"; true only when both propositions are true
●● disjunction
Answer: "or"; false only when both propositions are false
●● exclusive or
Answer: true only when exactly one of the propositions is true and false
otherwise
●● implication
Answer: conditional statement; "if p, then q" false when p is true and q
is false, true otherwise.
●● converse of p->q
Answer: q->p; equivalent to inverse
, ●● contrapositive p->q
Answer: not q -> not p; has the same truth value as p->q always
●● inverse of p->q
Answer: not p -> not q; equivalent to converse
●● equivalent
Answer: two compound propositions always having the same truth value
●● biconditionals (bi-implications; biconditional statements)
Answer: if and only if; true only when p and q have the same truth
values; iff
●● Precedence of logical operators
Answer: negation, conjunction, disjunction, conditional, biconditional
●● bit
Answer: symbol with two possible values, namely 0 and 1
●● boolean variable
Answer: a variable with a value of either true or false
APPLICATIONS ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW PACKAGE
●● conjunction
Answer: "and"; true only when both propositions are true
●● disjunction
Answer: "or"; false only when both propositions are false
●● exclusive or
Answer: true only when exactly one of the propositions is true and false
otherwise
●● implication
Answer: conditional statement; "if p, then q" false when p is true and q
is false, true otherwise.
●● converse of p->q
Answer: q->p; equivalent to inverse
, ●● contrapositive p->q
Answer: not q -> not p; has the same truth value as p->q always
●● inverse of p->q
Answer: not p -> not q; equivalent to converse
●● equivalent
Answer: two compound propositions always having the same truth value
●● biconditionals (bi-implications; biconditional statements)
Answer: if and only if; true only when p and q have the same truth
values; iff
●● Precedence of logical operators
Answer: negation, conjunction, disjunction, conditional, biconditional
●● bit
Answer: symbol with two possible values, namely 0 and 1
●● boolean variable
Answer: a variable with a value of either true or false