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2.5 Exercise 7

Avg difficulty 2.5

Assume the conditional statement, p→q:p \rightarrow q : “If Chadwick Boseman was an actor, then Chadwick Boseman did not star in the movie Black Panther” is false, and use it to answer the following questions.

  1. Write the converse of the statement in words and determine its truth value.
  2. Write the inverse of the statement in words and determine its truth value.
  3. Write the contrapositive of the statement in words and determine its truth value.

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 2.5 Equivalent Statements, exercise 7

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