3.2.2.1: Exercises
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Conditional Statements
- Consider the statement “If you are under age 17, then you cannot attend this movie.” Identify the two simpler statements used in this conditional statement.
- Write the converse.
- Write the inverse.
- Write the contrapositive.
- Assume that the statement “If you swear, then you will get your mouth washed out with soap” is true. Which of the following statements must also be true?
- If you don’t swear, then you won’t get your mouth washed out with soap.
- If you don’t get your mouth washed out with soap, then you didn’t swear.
- If you get your mouth washed out with soap, then you swore.
- Write the negation of each conditional statement.
- If you don’t look both ways before crossing the street, then you will get hit by a car.
- If Luke faces Vader, then Obi-Wan cannot interfere.
- If you weren’t talking, then you wouldn’t have missed the instructions.