NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 14 – Mathematical Reasoning Ex 14.2

NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Maths Chapter 14 – Mathematical Reasoning Ex 14.2

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Question 1:

Write the negation of the following statements:

(i) Chennai is the capital of Tamil Nadu.

(ii) is not a complex number.

(iii) All triangles are not equilateral triangle.

(iv) The number 2 is greater than 7.

(v) Every natural number is an integer.

Answer:

(i) Chennai is not the capital of Tamil Nadu.

(ii)  is a complex number.

(iii) All triangles are equilateral triangles.

(iv) The number 2 is not greater than 7.

(v) Every natural number is not an integer.

Question 2:

Are the following pairs of statements negations of each other?

(i) The number x is not a rational number.

The number x is not an irrational number.

(ii) The number x is a rational number.

The number x is an irrational number.

Answer:

(i) The negation of the first statement is “the number x is a rational number”.

This is same as the second statement. This is because if a number is not an irrational number, then it is a rational number.

Therefore, the given statements are negations of each other.

(ii) The negation of the first statement is “the number x is not a rational number”. This means that the number x is an irrational number, which is the same as the second statement.

Therefore, the given statements are negations of each other.

Question 3:

Find the component statements of the following compound statements and check whether they are true or false.

(i) Number 3 is prime or it is odd.

(ii) All integers are positive or negative.

(iii) 100 is divisible by 3, 11 and 5.

Answer:

(i) The component statements are as follows.

p: Number 3 is prime.

q: Number 3 is odd.

Both the statements are true.

(ii) The component statements are as follows.

p: All integers are positive.

q: All integers are negative.

Both the statements are false.

(iii) The component statements are as follows.

p: 100 is divisible by 3.

q: 100 is divisible by 11.

r: 100 is divisible by 5.

Here, the statements, p and q, are false and statement r is true.