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Geo Chap 2 vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conclusion | The phrase immediately following the word then in a conditional statement. |
| Conditional statement | A statement that can be written in if-then form. |
| If-then statement | Written in the form if p, then q. |
| Hypothesis | The phrase immediately following the word if in a conditional statement. |
| Conjecture | An educated guess based on known information. |
| Inductive reasoning | The Reasoning that uses a number of specific examples to arrive at a plausible generalization or prediction. |
| Counterexample | The one false example that proves a conjecture false. |
| Conditional | Given hypothesis and conclusion. |
| Converse | Exchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of the conditional. |
| Inverse | Negating both the hypothesis and conclusion of the conditional. |
| Contrapositive | Negating both the hypothesis and conclusion of the converse statement. |
| Deductive reasoning | Uses facts, rules, definitions, or properties to reach logical conclusions. |
| Law of detachment | A form of deductive reasoning that says if p to q is true and p is true, then q is also true. |
| Law of syllogism | A formof deductive reasoning that says if p to q and q to r are true, then p to r is also true. |
| Postulate | A statement that is accepted as true (Also known as axiom). |
| Theorem | A statement or conjecture that has been shown to be true. |