Geometry Fundamentals Quiz 2 -
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Already Passed
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
If Mary is older than Bill and Bill is older than Frank, then Mary is older
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Geometry Fundamentals Quiz 2 -
Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
Already Passed
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
If Mary is older than Bill and Bill is older than Frank, then Mary is older than Frank.
✔✔Deductive reasoning
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
You watch an ant taste a liquid and die. Several more ants sample the liquid and they die. You
conclude the liquid is an ant poison. ✔✔Inductive reasoning
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
The ceiling and wall of a room meet in a line segment. ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
If 5 x + 7 = 12, then x = 1. ✔✔Deductive reasoning
Select inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, or neither.
A courtroom spectator merely looks at the defendant and says, "He's guilty, I tell you."
✔✔neither
What conclusion can be based on the given statement?y is a number such that 6 y = 12 ✔✔y = 2
What conclusion can be based on the given statement?x is a number such that 7 x = 7 y ✔✔x = y
What conclusion can be based on the given statement?q is a whole number between 42.3 and
43.1 ✔✔q = 43.0
p → q is false and p is true.q is _________ ✔✔False
pq is true, and p is true.q is _________ ✔✔True
You _____________ always prove a conclusion by inductive reasoning. ✔✔cannot
Where p and q are statements, p ^ q is called the ________________ of p and q ✔✔conjuction
Where m and n are statements mn is called the _________________ of m and n . ✔✔disjunction
Reaching a conclusion by looking at several examples is called
____________________________ ✔✔inductive reasoning
If p is a true statement and q is false, then p V q is true.
True or False? ✔✔True
If p → q is true and p is true, then we know q is true.
True or False? ✔✔True
Consider this equation: 2 x + 2 = 11 - x
Now consider the equation written as: 3 x + 2 = 11
What is the correct property of equality that justifies rewriting the equation? ✔✔addition
Which of the following statements is the contrapositive of the given statement?
"If dogs have fleas, they scratch all night."
1. If they don't scratch all night, then dogs don't have fleas.
2. If they scratch all night, then dogs have fleas.
3. If dogs don't have fleas, then they don't scratch all night. ✔✔1, If they don't scratch all night,
then dogs don't have fleas.
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