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A biconditional is a statement wherein the truth of each item depends on the truth of the other.

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What is negation of biconditional statement?

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What is biconditional?

A biconditional is a statement wherein the truth of each item depends on the truth of the other.


What is a converse of a conditional statement?

It is the biconditional.


How do you rewrite a biconditional as two conditional statements?

A biconditional statement, expressed as "P if and only if Q" (P ↔ Q), can be rewritten as two conditional statements: "If P, then Q" (P → Q) and "If Q, then P" (Q → P). This means that both conditions must be true for the biconditional to hold. Essentially, the biconditional asserts that P and Q are equivalent in truth value.


How does biconditional statement different from a conditional statement?

a condtional statement may be true or false but only in one direction a biconditional statement is true in both directions


Is the converse of a biconditional statement always true?

Yes


Can a good definition be written in biconditional form?

yes


when the biconditional statement is separated into a conditional and its converse which of these cannot be the converse Biconditional: Lines r coplanar if and only if they lie in the same plane.?

If lines lie in two planes, then the lines are coplanar.


What is the conjunction of a conditional statement and its converse?

A biconditional is the conjunction of a conditional statement and its converse.


is this biconditional true or falseToday is Wednesday if and only if yesterday was Tuesday.?

true


Is The converse of a biconditional statement is always true?

No, not always. It depends on if the original biconditional statement is true. For example take the following biconditional statement:x = 3 if and only if x2 = 9.From this biconditional statement we can extract two conditional statements (hence why it is called a bicondional statement):The Conditional Statement: If x = 3 then x2 = 9.This statement is true. However, the second statement we can extract is called the converse.The Converse: If x2=9 then x = 3.This statement is false, because x could also equal -3. Since this is false, it makes the entire original biconditional statement false.All it takes to prove that a statement is false is one counterexample.


What term means it is an if and only if statement?

The term that refers to an "if and only if" statement is "biconditional." In logic, a biconditional statement asserts that two statements are equivalent, meaning that both must be true or both must be false for the biconditional to hold true. It is often represented using the symbol "↔" or phrases like "p if and only if q" (p ↔ q).