If you are talking about Geometry, then it tricked me, too. Turns out, hypothesis is what is AFTER the "if." DO NOT INCLUDE THE "IF", IT'S WRONG. And the conclusion is everything AFTER the "then." DO NOT INCLUDE "THEN", IT'S WRONG!" And the hypothesis does NOT have to come before the conclusion.
ex.
If it is Monday, then we have school.
hypothesis, "It is Monday."
conclusion, "We have school."
example of the If-Then going "Then-If" (so to speak):
We have school if it is Monday.
hypothesis, "It is Monday."
conclusion, "We have school."
See? Simple, right. But, tests can be tricky, so watch out!
Determine the conclusion in this conditional statement. if Larry is in the band then he likes music?
The store is closed
the .... of a conditional statement is found by switching the hypothesis and conclusion .
The inverse of a conditional statement switches the hypothesis and conclusion. The converse of a conditional statement switches the hypothesis and conclusion. The contrapositive of a conditional statement switches and negates the hypothesis and conclusion.
Hypothesis followed by a conclusion is called an If-then statement or a conditional statement.
The converse of this conditional statement would be: if I am in the south, then I am in Mississippi. It essentially swaps the hypothesis and conclusion of the original conditional statement.
Converse
Contrapositive
Switching the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional statement.
true
The statement formed by exchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of a conditional statement is called the "converse." For example, if the original conditional statement is "If P, then Q," its converse would be "If Q, then P." The truth of the converse is not guaranteed by the truth of the original statement.
Given a conditional statement of the form:If "hypothesis" then "conclusion",the inverse is:If "not hypothesis" then "not conclusion".