SOLUTION: Consider the following statements All United States Postal workers are federal employees Jim is a United States postal worker Write the first statement as a conditional and use

Question 54107This question is from textbook holt geometry
: Consider the following statements
All United States Postal workers are federal employees
Jim is a United States postal worker
Write the first statement as a conditional and use deduction to show that John is a federal employee.Draw an Euler diagram to illustrate the logic of your deduction. This question is from textbook holt geometry

Answer by funmath(2933) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm not sure how you're supposed to write your conditional statements. Verbally, you could say:If you are a postal worker, then you are a federal employee. Jim is a postal worker, then he is a federal employee'
Or:
All postal workers are federal employees
Jim is a postal worker
________________________________________
Jim is a federal employee
Another way to do this is:
Let P=postal workers
Let Q=federal employee
P--->Q
P
______
Q
There will be other ways later more than likely.
I can't make circles, so I'm going to try to talk you through it. Draw a little circle inside of a big circle. Label the little circle (all postal workers). The little circle always gets the ALL things. Label the outer circle (federal employees).
Use an x to represent Jim. They said that he was a postal worker, so put the x in the little circle labeled (postal worker). Is the x also in the (federal employees) circle? Yes. The whole little circle is inside the big circle so this is a Valid argument.
I'll try an illustration, imagine the parnethesis as the little circle and the brakets as the big circle.
[federal employees(x postal workers)]
Is the x inside of the braket? Yes. Then it's a valid argument.
Hope that helps.

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