When a conditional statement and its converse are both true, you can write it as a single biconditional statement.
You can run for President if and only if you are at least 35 years old.
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When a conditional statement and its converse are both true, it can be rewritten as a single biconditional statement. If p is the hypothesis and q the conclusion, the biconditional statement is written as p if and only if q. From the exercise, we have been given both a hypothesis and a conclusion.
p&=You can run for President
q&=You are at least 35 years old
Using deductive reasoning, we can confirm that both the conditional statement and converse is true. Therefore, we can write this as a biconditional statement.
Biconditional statement
You can run for President if and only if
you are at least 35 years old.
