MATH8 IF-THEN STATEMENT

The type of reasoning where a person makes conclusions based on observations and patterns is called____?

• Conjecture

• Experiments

  
  

• Deductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

Used to prove that a conjecture is false.

• Inductive reasoning

• Conjecture

• Concluding statement

• Counterexample

The type of reasoning where a person makes a general assumption into a more specific idea or action is called____?

• Conjecture

  
  

• Experiments

• Deductive reasoning

• Inductive reasoning

A statement that can be written in the if-then form is a(n).

• Converse statement

• Conditional statement

• Inverse statement

• Contrapositive

True/False: Logically equivalent statements are statements that have different truth values.

• False

• True

The part of a conditional statement following the word if.

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

• Counterexample

• Conjecture

What word(s) is associated with a conditional statement?

• if and only if

• or

• If, then

• and

p then q

• Contrapositive

• Conditional

• Inverse

• Converse

The part of a conditional statement following the word then.

• Conclusion

  
  

• Counterexample

• Hypothesis

• Conjecture

Original: A number is prime. It has exactly two divisors. What is this?

If a number is prime, then it has exactly two divisors.

• Conjecture

• Concluding statement

• conditional statement

• if-then statement