Write a conditional statement. Write the converse, inverse and contrapositive for your statement and determine the truth value of each. If a statements truth value is false, give a counterexample
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A:
A conditional statement involves 2 propositions, p and q. The conditional statement, is a proposition which we write as: p⇒q,
and read "if p then q"
Let p be the proposition: Triangle ABC is a right triangle with m(C)=90°.
Let q be the proposition: The sides of triangle ABC are such that
[tex]|AB|^2=|BC|^2+|AC|^2[/tex].
An example of a conditional statement is : p⇒q, that is:
if Triangle ABC is a right triangle with m(C)=90° then The sides of triangle ABC are such that [tex]|AB|^2=|BC|^2+|AC|^2[/tex]
This compound proposition (compound because we formed it using 2 other propositions) is true. So the truth value is True,
the converse, inverse and contrapositive of p⇒q are defined as follows: