
Originally Posted by
Aquameatwad
Someone PLEASE help me!
I'm trying to write a contradiction to the statement:
If three positive real numbers x,y,z are chose between 0 and 1 with 0<x<y<z<1, then the distance from x to y is less than .5 or the distance from y to z is less than .5.
I belive it is:
If three positive real numbers x,y,z are chose between 0 and 1 with0<x<y<z<1, then the distance from x to y is not less than .5 and thedistance from y to z is not less than .5.
But my teacher tells me this is wrong.