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Q.Write the negation of the statement: "If it rains, then the match is cancelled."

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Let p:p: "It rains" and q:q: "The match is cancelled". The given statement is the conditional p→qp \rightarrow q.

Using the equivalence for the negation of a conditional, ∼(p→q)≡p∧∼q.\sim(p \rightarrow q) \equiv p \wedge \sim q. (This follows because p→q≡∼p∨qp \rightarrow q \equiv \sim p \vee q, whose negation by De Morgan is ∼(∼p)∧∼q≡p∧∼q\sim(\sim p) \wedge \sim q \equiv p \wedge \sim q.)

Translating p∧∼qp \wedge \sim q back into words: pp = "it rains" and ∼q\sim q = "the match is not cancelled". So the negation is: "It rains and the match is not cancelled." …

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