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Q: Explain why a conjecture may be true or false?
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How determine whether the conjecture is true or false. If false give a counterexample. Given LMN and XMZ are coplanar. Conjecture The angles are vertical angles.?

Select one: a. False; the angles may be supplementary. b. True c. False; one angle may be in the interior of the other. d. False; the angles may be adjacent.


Is 72 a conjecture?

A conjecture is a proposition that is unproven but appears correct and has not been disproven.


Is it true or false that people who are blind often use a white cane that may or may not have a red tip?

true


Can a conjecture be used to explain the steps of a proof?

No. A conjecture itself has not been proved true (nor false), but is believed, on the evidence so far, to be true. If it is at some stage in the future actually proved to be false any proof based on it would immediately be useless as anything can be proved to be true from a false premise, and this includes false statements. For example consider a father who always tells his child the truth and consider the statement a father gives his son: "If you are not in bed by 8pm then I will not read you a story". If the child in not in bed by 8pm, then the father will not read them a story. ie if the premise of not being in bed by 8pm is true, it is proved that no story is read. However, if the child is in bed by 8pm, the premise of not being in bed by 8pm is false (ie the child is in bed by 8pm) nothing can be inferred about a story being read: the father may read a story, or he may not read a story. The conjecture concerns the time the child is in bed: If the child is in bed by 8pm, and the father does read a story, the father made a true statement. If the child is in bed by 8pm, and the father does not read a story, the father still made a true statement! This may seem illogical (and cruel), but the father has only said what will happen if the child is not in bed by 8pm; he has said nothing about what will happen if the child is in bed by 8pm. It is very logical and is the "implies" (→) logic table: T → T = T T → F = F F → T = T F → F = T If the first statement is true, the result is the truth of the second statement. If the first statement is false, the result is true regardless of the truth of the second statement. So if a conjecture is the first statement, only if it is [proved true] true does it say anything about the truth of the following statement.


True or false the constitution is a permanment document which may never be changed?

False


True or false The president may adjourn congress?

true


Is claim mean true or false?

Neither. It is a hypothesis which may be true until proved or proved to be false.


What is the difference between a conjecture postulate theorem and corollary?

Conjecture: a statement which may or may not be true.Postulate: a statement that is believed to be true, but may not be.Theorem: a statement that has been proved to be true provided some postulates are true.Corollary: a statement whose truth follows from the truth of a theorem, but one which is not important enough to call it a theorem.


Sometimes when you are training for an event you may notice a decrease in improvement and a leveling of performance true or false?

True


True or false is ethics may be a matter of opinions and feelings?

true


Is it true or false that an isosceles triangle may have a right angle?

It is true.


An altitude of a triangle may not fall outside the triangle true or false?

False