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For each of the following pairs of statements determine whether the proposed negation is c...

For each of the following pairs of statements determine whether the proposed negation is correct. If correct, determine which is true: the original statement or the proposed negation. If the proposed negation is wrong, write a correct version of the negation and then determine whether the original statement or your corrected version of the negation is true.

a) Statement: For all real numbers x, y, if x2> y2, then x > y.

Proposed negation: There exist real numbers .x, y such that x2 > y2 but x ≤ y.


b) Statement: There exist real numbers x, y such that x and y are rational but x + y is irrational.

Proposed negation: For all real numbers x, y, if x + y is rational, then each of x, y is rational.


c) Statement: For all real numbers .x, if x is not 0, then x has a multiplicative inverse.

Proposed negation: There exists a nonzero real number that does not have a multiplicative inverse.


d) Statement: There exist odd integers whose product is odd.

Proposed negation: The product of any two odd integers is odd.

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