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2.5 Exercise 5

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the conditional statement, “If all dogs bark, then Lassie likes to bark,” to identify the following.

  1. Write the hypothesis of the conditional statement and label it with a pp.
  2. Write the conclusion of the conditional statement and label it with a qq.
  3. Identify the following statement as the converse, inverse, or contrapositive: “If Lassie likes to bark, then all dogs bark.”
  4. Identify the following statement as the converse, inverse, or contrapositive: “If Lassie does not like to bark, then some dogs do not bark.”
  5. Which statement is logically equivalent to the conditional statement?

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