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Question | Answer |
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Inductive reasoning | The process by which a generalization is reached from evaluating specific observations or situations |
Generalization | A broad statement that applys to many examples |
Statement | A meaningful composition of words which can be considered either true or false |
Conjecture | An unproven statement that is based on observations. An educated guess that may be wrong. |
Counterexample | A specific case for which the conjecture is false. |
Conditional statement | A statement that can be written in if-then form |
Hypothesis | The if part of the conditional statement |
Point | Named by a capital letter. Point A or A |
Lines | Use any two points on a line to name it |
Perpendicular lines | Two lines that intersect to form a right angle |
Skew lines | Lines that do not intersect, and are not coplaner |
Opposite rays | Opposite rays are collinear. |
Negation | The opposite of the original statement |
Converse | flip |
Inverse | negate |
Contrapositive | flip and negate |
Equivalent statements | when two statements are both true or both false |
Midpoint | point that divides the segment into two congruent segments |
Biconditional statement | a statement that uses if and only if |