Reasoning and Proof DAY 4: 2.4 Deductive Reasoning
given conclusion
The car will not start The garden will be watered
No conclusion. Could be flooding Its sides have equal length No conclusion. Could be vertical
two true conclusion hypothesis
If a quadrilateral is a square, then it is a rectangle. If a whole number ends in zero, then it is divisible by 5. If it is Saturday, then you wear sneakers.
Elias lives in the US. The Nile is the longest river in the world.
Deductive Reasoning Coming to conclusions from facts or given statements
Conditional If then statements
Inverse If not p, then not q (negation)
Law of Detachment If the hypothesis is true, reasoning that the conclusion is true
Law of Syllogism When conclusion of one true conditional is the hypothesis of another conditional. (Can write new conditionals)
Good definition Clear, precise, and REVERSIBLE
2.4 PRACTICE CHILDREN’S BOOK Homework: