DOMINICAN COLLEGE OF TARLAC

FINAL EXAMINATION
GE 4 - MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
Second Semester A.Y. 2019-2020

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1. Which of the following is specifically concerned logical connectives the compound statement is
with whether reasoning is correct? called?
a. Proof a. Proposition
b. Statement b. Statement
c. Logic c. Proof
d. Statistics d. Sentence

2. Who is the first mathematician that made a 9. The words and phrases “and, or, if…then, and if
serious study of symbolic logic? and only if” creates what kind of statement in
a. Pythagoras logic?
b. Albert Einstein a. Simple
c. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz b. Compound
d. Blaise Pascal c. Complex
d. Compound-Complex
3. Logic is also known as?
a. Calculus 10. Which are the symbols introduced and used by
b. Prepositional Calculus George Boole to connect simple statements?
c. Propositional Calculus a. ∧, v only
d. Preposition b. ~, *, ↔ only
c. ∧, v, ~, →, ↔
4. Who published The mathematical analysis of d. ∧, v, ~, : , & *
Logic in 1848?
a. Bertrand Russell 11. The four logical connectives are?
b. George Boole a. Conjunctions, Conditionals, Compounds
c. Leibniz and Disjunction
d. Augustus De Morgan b. Conjunctions, Statements, Disjunctions,
and Conditionals
5. Which mathematician stated “Pure mathematics c. Conditionals, Disjunctions, Negations,
was discovered by Boole in a work which is and Conjunctions
called, The Laws of Thought”? d. Conjuncts, Disjuncts, Conditionals, and
a. Bertrand Russell Negations
b. George Boole
c. Leibniz 12. Given the statements p: Bridget lives in Florida
d. Augustus De Morgan and q: Bridget drives a red car, what is the
symbol for the compound statement “Bridget
6. He is one of the mathematicians who lives in Florida and Bridget drives a red car”?
contributed to the advancement of symbolic a. p ∧ q
logic as a mathematical discipline. b. p v q
a. Bertrand Russell c. p → q
b. Leibniz d. p ↔q
c. Augustus De Morgan
d. Blaise Pascal 13. What is the translation in symbols of the
compound statement 'If I feel alright, then it is
7. What is a declarative sentence that is either true Friday night' using the following statement
or false, but not both true and false. variables?
a. Proposition r: It is Friday night.
b. Statement s: I feel alright.
c. Proof a. r → s
d. Sentence b. r ↔ s
c. s → r
d. s ↔ r

14. The symbol for a negation is?

8. When the sub-statement of a compound a. →p
statement are variables and represented in b. : p
 c. v p d. If Bill is Tom’s Brother, then Tom is
d. ~ p Jane’s father and Jane is Bill’s niece.

15. In a disjunction, even if one of the statements is 19. Which of the following is the correct negation of
false, the whole disjunction is still? the statement “All movies are worth the price of
a. False admission”?
b. Negated a. All movies are not worth the price of
c. True admission
d. Both true and false b. Some movies are not worth the price of
admission
16. A conditional is false only when the first c. No movie is worth the price of
statement is? admission
a. True and the second statement is false d. None of these
b. False and the second statement is false
c. True and the second statement is true
d. False and the second statement is true

17. In a truth table for a two-variable argument, the

first guide column has which the following truth
values?
a. T, T, F, F
b. F, F, T, T
c. T, F, T, F 20. If p: Kesha’s singing style is similar to Uffie’s,
d. T, F, F, F q: Kesha has messy hair, r: Kesha is a rapper,
what is (p ∧ q) → r in English sentence form?
18. Consider the statement form p ⇒ q where p: “If a. Kesha’s singing style is similar to
Tom is Jane’s father then Jane is Bill’s niece” Uffie’s or Kesha has messy hair, then
and q: “Bill is Tom’s brother.” Which of the Kesha is a rapper.
following statements is equivalent to this b. If Kesha’s singing style is similar to
statement? Uffie’s or Kesha has messy hair and
a. If Bill is Tom’s Brother, then Tom is Kesha is a rapper.
Jane’s father and Jane is not Bill’s niece. c. If Kesha’s singing style is similar to
b. If Bill is not Tom’s Brother, then Tom is Uffie’s and Kesha has messy hair, then
Jane’s father and Jane is not Bill’s niece. Kesha is a rapper.
c. If Bill is not Tom’s Brother, then Tom is d. None of these
Jane’s father or Jane is Bill’s niece.