SOLUTION: Let q represent: "Shakespeare wrote Hamlet" (true statement) Let p represent: "Longfellow was a poet." (true statement) Write the following statement in symbolic form using t

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Question 1194357: Let q represent: "Shakespeare wrote Hamlet" (true statement)
Let p represent: "Longfellow was a poet." (true statement)
Write the following statement in symbolic form using the
letters above:
"It is false that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Longfellow was a poet."

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

There are two ways to take this:

"It is false that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Longfellow was a poet."

First way:

"It is false that (Shakespeare wrote Hamlet and Longfellow was a poet.)"

~(p ∧ q).

Second way:

"(It is false that Shakespeare wrote Hamlet) and (Longfellow was a poet.)"

~p ∧ q.

Your teacher shouldn't give you ambiguous sentences.

Edwin

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