SOLUTION: If a square has five sides, than a triangle has three sides. True or False?

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Question 666948: If a square has five sides, than a triangle has three sides.
True or False?
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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In any "if p, then q" statement, if p is false, then the statement "if p, then q" is always true regardless of the truth of q.

Here we have a p that is clearly false and a q that is clearly true. So the statement "if p, then q" is true.

"If a square has five sides, than a triangle has eight sides." would also be true even though p and q individually are each false.

John

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