The science of correct reasoningLogicThe drawing of inferences or conclusions from known or assumed factsReasoningUses observations and patterns to arrive at a conclusion (conjecture)Inductive reasoningUses facts, rules, definitions, or properties to arrive at a conclusionDeductive reasoningA statement that can be written in if-then formConditional statementConditional statement symbol-->The opposite meaning of the original statementNegationsA statement, example, figure, etc... that proves that a statement is falseCounterexamplesIf you live in florida, then you live in miamiFalse; counterexampleWith counterexamples you should not correct the statement and give an example of why the statement is falseTrueAll true statement do have counterexamplesFalse they do notConditional symbolp-->qSwitch the hypothesis and conclusionConverseConditional and the converseBiconditional statementsJoins the conditional and converse into one statement<span>Bionditional statements</span>
5 x 2 x 7 x 3
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The answer is c to your problemo
We start with
and wish to write it as
First, pull 2 out from the first two terms:
Let’s look at what is in parenthesis. In the final form this needs to be a perfect square. Right now we have
and we can obtain -10x by adding -5x and -5x. That is, we can build the following perfect square:
The “problem” with what we just did is that we added to what was given. Let’s put the expression together. We have
and when we multiply that out it does not give us what we started with. It gives us
So you see our expression is not right. It should have a -53 but instead has a -3. So to correct it we need to subtract another 50.
We do this as follows:
which gives us the final expression we seek:
If you multiply this out you will get the exact expression we were given. This means that:
a = 2
d = -5
e = -103
We are asked for the sum of a, d and e which is 2 + (-5) + (-103) = -106