CHAPTER 2- REASONING AND PROOF. STATISTICS. Designed to boost confidence and grades!

CHAPTER 2- REASONING AND PROOF. STATISTICS.
Designed to boost confidence and grades!
Conditional - Answer: an if-then statement


Hypothesis - Answer: the part p following if


Conclusion - Answer: the part q following then


Truth value - Answer: the statement is either true or false


Negation - Answer: the opposite of the statement


Converse - Answer: the statement obtained by reversing the hypothesis and conclusion
of the conditional


Inverse - Answer: negating both the hypothesis and the conclusion of the conditional


Contrapositive - Answer: negating both the hypothesise and the conclusion of the
converse


Equivalent statements - Answer: statements that have the same truth value


Biconditional - Answer: a single true statement that combines a true conditional and its
true converse.


Proof - Answer: a convincing argument that uses deductive reasoning


Two-column proof - Answer: lists each statement on the left and the justification on the
right


Theorem - Answer: a conjecture or statement that you prove true

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