Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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1. Conditional Statements
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Exercise 37 Page 448

The conditional statement refers to the requirements of high school students in terms of English courses before they graduate.

Example Solution: If students are in high school, then they will take four English courses before they graduate.
Explanation: See solution.

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We are searching for an error in the given statements so we can then rewrite them correctly.

Conditional statement

All high school students take four English Courses.

If-then statement *

If a high school student takes four courses, then all four are English courses.

The conditional statement does not say that if a high school student takes four courses, all of them have to be English courses. Instead, what it states is that a high school student is required to take four high school courses in English. We can write this as the following if-then statement.

If-then statement âś“

If students are in high school, then they will take four English courses before they graduate.