Question

Given:

p = Singing in the Rain is a song.
q = World War II started in 1945.

Which symbolic representation demonstrates the following statement?

“Singing in the Rain is not a song, or World War II did not start in 1945.”
Answer

~p ∨ ~q

p ∨ ~q

~p ∧ ~q

p ∧ ~q

Answer 1

@ganeshie8 Can you help explain what all this means and what q and p and the ~ is for?

Answer 2

ok meaning of few symbols :

~ : opposite
v : or
^ : and

Answer 3

pay attention to those 3 symbols,
it becomes easy to convert the statements to logic form

Answer 4

~pV~q

Answer 5

“Singing in the Rain is not a song, or World War II did not start in 1945.”

Answer 6

lets split the sentence

Answer 7

“Singing in the Rain is not a song,

or

World War II did not start in 1945.”

Answer 8

~p

v

~q

Answer 9

~p v ~q

Answer 10

:O thanks. so the answer would be A ?

Answer 11

yep !!

Answer 12

so what is p and q for ?

Answer 13

p = Singing in the Rain is a song.
q = World War II started in 1945.

they are given in the question lol

Answer 14

~p : opposite of p statement above
~q : opposite of q statement above

Answer 15

only we need to interpret the given two sentences. thats it. rest everything is very easy (:

Answer 16

ok thankyou.

Answer 17

wc :D