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And/OR
« on: December 01, 2009, 06:32:04 pm »
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When do you use and and when do you use OR when solving an equation with 2 answers?
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Re: And/OR
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 08:01:59 pm »
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when an answer is an and it is actually an or. like for a graph with 2 bits its always OR even though its an AND???! make sense
thats what my teahcer told me anyway =.=
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Re: And/OR
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2009, 02:45:05 pm »
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Quite confusing..
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Re: And/OR
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2009, 09:59:34 pm »
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Use AND when you have joint events.

Use OR when you have disjoint events.
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Re: And/OR
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2009, 10:48:32 pm »
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Be aware that the mathematical sense of OR can mean both.
E.g. the statement "for , OR " is true, and both and hold in the particular case .
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