# Thread: valid or invalid ?

1. ## valid or invalid ?

Determine whether the following argument of this form is a valid or an invalid using the truth table:

If I am student and I am not reading then I will go to the birth day party.
I am student or I am reading.
If it is reading then I am student.
Therefore I will go to the birth day party

2. Hello, naseerhaider!

I'll get you started . . .

Determine whether the following argument of this form is a valid or an invalid using the truth table:

[1] If I am a student and I am not reading, then I will go to the birthday party.
[2] I am student or I am reading.
[3] If I am reading then. I am a student.
[4] Therefore I will go to the birthday party
$p$: I am a student.
$q$: I am reading.
$r$: I will go to the birthday party.

Statement [1] is: . $(p\: \wedge \sim\!q) \to r$

Statement [2] is: . $p \vee q$

Statement [3] is: . $q \to p$

Statement [4] is: . $r$

The statement to test in a truth table is:

. . $\bigg(\left[(p\,\wedge \sim\!q) \to r\right] \:\wedge\: (p \vee q) \:\wedge \:(q \to p)\bigg) \;\to\; r$

3. Originally Posted by Soroban
Hello, naseerhaider!

I'll get you started . . .

$p$: I am a student.
$q$: I am reading.
$r$: I will go to the birthday party.

Statement [1] is: . $(p\: \wedge \sim\!q) \to r$

Statement [2] is: . $p \vee q$

Statement [3] is: . $q \to p$

Statement [4] is: . $r$

The statement to test in a truth table is:

. . $\bigg(\left[(p\,\wedge \sim\!q) \to r\right] \:\wedge\: (p \vee q) \:\wedge \q \to p)\bigg) \;\to\; r" alt="\bigg(\left[(p\,\wedge \sim\!q) \to r\right] \:\wedge\: (p \vee q) \:\wedge \q \to p)\bigg) \;\to\; r" />

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