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Your solution, attempt at solution. If you are unable to attempt a solution,
give a phrase-by-phrase interpretation of the problem along with a statement of
what you do or do not understand about it.
This response should be given, based on the work you did in completing
the assignment, before you look at the given solution.
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.10 Shrek is top grossing film.
Is this a statement?
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`a** A sentence is a statement if it is true or false. Otherwise it is not a statement. 'There goes a big one' is not a statement because the word 'big' is open to interpretation so is not a statement. 'There are 3.87 * 10^89 particles in the universe at this instant' is a statement: it is either true or it isn't, though we don't know enough to tell which.
The gross receipts for a film can be regarded as hard facts--unlike opinions on whether a film is good, or artistic. If 'a top grossing film' is defined as, say, a top-10 film in gross receipts, then we could ascertain whether it is true or false and we would have a the statement.
However, 'top grossing' isn't defined here--does it mean one of the top three for the week, top 10 for the year, or what?--and for that reason we can't decide for sure whether it is true or false. So this sentence couldn't be regarded as a statement. **
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Question: `qQuery Not assigned, but you should be able to answer: Is 'Sit up and behave.' a statementlineCount = lineCount + 1: bLine$(lineCount) = "
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`a** This is not a statement. It is a command.
You could evaluate the truth of the statement 'you sat up', but not the truth of the command to sit up. **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.30 negate 'some people have all the luck
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`a** The negation would be 'all people don't have all the luck', which means 'nobody has all the luck'.
The negation of 'some do' is indeed 'all do not', which is the same as 'none do'.
The negation of 'all do' is 'some do not'.
The negation of 'none do' is 'some do'.
COMMON ERROR: Not everyone has all the luck, or equivalently some people do not have all the luck.
This is not incompatible with the original statement, and the negation must be incompatible. Both would be true if some do have all the luck and some don't. **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.42 p: she has green eyes q: he is 56. What is the statement (p disjunction q)?
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`a** The statement is 'She has green eyes or he is 56 yrs. old' **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.48 What is the statement -(p disjunction q)
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`a** The correct translation is 'It is not the case that she has green eyes or he is 56 yrs. old'.
An equivalent statement, using deMorgan's Laws, would be 'she doesn't have green eyes and he is 56 years old'
COMMON ERROR: She doesn't have green eyes or he is not 56 years old.
This statement negates p V q as ~p V ~q, which is not correct. The negation of p V q is ~p ^ ~q. **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.54 Jack is an English Major or Chris collects DVDs, and it is not the case that both are so
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`a** The statement 'jack English or Chris collects' is symbolized by (p U q). The statement that it is not the case that both are so is symbolized ~(p ^ q). The entire statement is therefore (p U q) ^ ~(p ^ q).**
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Question: `q3.1.68 (formerly 3.1.60). This was not assigned, but you should be able to reason this out: {}{}True or false: there exists an integer that is not a rational number.
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`a** A rational number is a number that can be written as p / q, with p and q both integers. Examples are 2/3, -5489/732, 6/2, etc.. Other examples could be 5/1, 12/1, -26/1; these of course reduce to just 5, 12, and -26.
The point is that any integer can be written in this form, with 1 in the denominator, so any integer is in fact also a rational number.
Thus there is no integer that is not a rational number, and the statement is false. **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.74 (was 3.1.66) Not assigned, but reason it out: True or false: each rat number is a positive number.
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`a** This is false, and to prove it you need only give an example of a rational number that is negative. For example, -39/12 is a rational number (integer / integer) and is negative. **
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Question: `qQuery 3.1.75 difference between 'all students did not pass the test' is the statement ' not all students passed the test'
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`a** The first statement says that 'all students did not pass', meaning every student didn't pass, i.e., nobody passed the test.
The second statement says that not everyone passed--at least one student didn't pass.
The second statement doesn't address the question of whether anyone passed or not, so it doesn't necessarily say that some students did pass, but it leaves open the possibility that some did.
Since the second statement contains possibilities the first does not the statements are not equivalent. **