Geometry Notes 📝 - Conditional Statements

What is a conditional statement? A logical statement that has two parts: a hypothesis and a conclusion.

P = hypothesis, Q = conclusion: It’s often written in the form: if p, then q.

What are the forms of conditional statement? Converse: If q, then p; Inverse: if not p, then not q; Contrapositive: if not q, then not p.

What is a counterexample? An example that proves the conditional statement to be false.

What is a biconditional statement? A biconditional statement is written when both a conditional and its converse are true.