The test will have about 12 questions, each weighted roughly equally. There should be ample room to show your work.
Here is a list of material included on the test.
SECTION
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MATERIAL |
6.1, 6.2
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Be able to translate sentences into symbolic form with capital letters representing simple statements. |
6.2
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Know and understand the five logical operators and their truth tables. |
6.3
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Be able to work out the truth tables for statements, and identify statements
as tautologous, self-contradictory or contingent. Use truth tables to decide if pairs of statements are logically equivalent, contradictory, consistent or inconsistent. |
6.4
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Determine the validity of an argument by writing its truth table. |
6.5
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Use indirect truth tables to test validity of arguments and consistency of groups of statements. |
For practice, you may wish to try Sample Test #2