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Geometry worksheet to help students apply the Law of Detachment to write conclusions from given premises.

Activity 3.8​

Assignment 3.9

​Assignment 5.9

​Law of Detachment

 
Objectives
Write conclusions for arguments using the Law of Detachment.
 
Write conditional premises to complete arguments with given conclusions using the Law of Detachment.
 
 
 
 
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Geometry worksheet to help students apply the Law of Detachment to write conclusions from given premises or write the conditional premise for an argument with a given conclusion.

About Geometry Worksheet Assignment 5.9:     

 

Assignment 5.9 is an introduction to the Law of Detachment.

 

Prerequisite Skills:  Identify valid arguments (Assignment 4.2).  Identify the hypothesis and conclusion in conditional sentences (Assignment 5.6).

 

Definition:  The Law of Detachment is a valid argument in which one of the premises is a conditional and the other is a specific case of the hypothesis of the

                        conditional.

 

                        Conditional Premise:      If p, then q.

                        Specific Case Premise:  p

                        Conclusion:                    q

 

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