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Biconditional
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 Conjunction of two statements (conditional and its converse) |
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Compound statement
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 Two or more statements that are joined together |
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Conclusion
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 Phrase immediately following the word then |
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Conditional statement
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 Statement that can be written in if-then form |
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Conjecture
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 Educated guess based on known information |
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Contrapositive
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 Negating both the hypothesis and conclusion of the converse statement |
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Converse
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 Exchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of the conditional |
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Counterexample
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False example
example: apples are red. apples are green. |
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Deductive reasoning
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 Uses facts, rules, definitions, or properties to reach logical conclusions |
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Hypothesis
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 The phrase immediately following the word if |
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Inverse
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 Negating both the hypothesis and conclusion of the conditional |
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Negation
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Has the opposite meaning as well as an opposite truth value
~p, read not p |
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Properties
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 Ways you can manipulate a statement example: distributive property |
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Theorem
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A statement of conjecture that has been shown to be true
example: 2.10- all right angles are congruent |
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Alternate exterior angles
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 Opposite outside angles of the bread |
