2.1 Write Conditional Statements Flashcards
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Conjecture
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A statement that is believed to be true.
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Conditional statement
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A statement that can be written in the form “ if p, then q” where p is the hypothesis of the statement and q is the conclusions.
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Converse
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one of the three statements that are related to a Conditional statement.
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Inverse
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One of three statements that are related to a Conditional statement.
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Contrapositive
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of a Conditional statement
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Counterexample
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An example that proves that conjecture statement is false.
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Bi conditional
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If a conditional statement and its converse are both true they can be combined into a single bi conditional statement.
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Definitions
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A statement that describes a mathematical object and can be written as a true bi conditional statement.
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