EMATH REVIEWER Flashcards
MEANS TO DEMONSTRATE THE TRUTH OR EXISTENCE OF
(SOMETHING) BY EVIDENCE OR ARGUMENT.
PROVING
IS A DEVICE USED TO ESTABLISH THE ABSOLUTE AND IRREVOCABLE
TRUTH OF STATEMENTS IN MATHEMATICS
PROOF
The science of correct reasoning.
Logic
The drawing of inferences or conclusions
from known or assumed facts.
Reasoning
a combination of two statements p (hypothesis) and q (conclusion) and by the words “if” and “then”. It comes in the form “if p, then q.”
Conditional statement
A conditional statement is also called an?
Implication
How to write an if-then statement?
- find the subject and predicate
- then place the subject in the if part of the sentence
- then put a comma
- then put the predicate in the then part of the sentence then period.
a figure , an explanation or a situation used to justify that a given conditional is false.
COUNTEREXAMPLE
IS THE TRANSFORMATION OF A STATEMENT SUCH THAT IT WILL BE THE OPPOSITE OF ITS TRUTH VALUE.
NEGATION
a statement refers to whether it is theoretically true or theoretically false
Truth value
type of statement that just reverses the order of a conditional statement. The conclusion q becomes the hypothesis and the hypothesis p becomes the conclusion. It is the if q , then p statement.
CONVERSE
type of statement that negates both the hypothesis and conclusion.
Inverse
type of statement that just reverse the order of an INVERSE statement.
Contrapositive
give the SYMBOLISM of the 5 types of statements
Conditional:
- p -> q
Converse:
- q -> p
Inverse:
- ~p -> ~q
Contrapositive:
- ~q -> p
Biconditional:
- p <–> q
“If an animal barks, then it is a dog.” turn this statement into converse.
If it is a dog, then it barks.