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/: I am at home.

/: I am playing video games.

Translate the following statement into symbolic form.

It is not the case that I am at home and am playing video games.

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This is a Logic Problem. So we need to use operators to solve this problem. There are several operators in logic. Operators can be monadic or dyadic. A monadic operator operates on a single simple statement. Other operators will all be dyadic operators because they operate on two simple statements. So in this problem we have the following operators:

1. The negation operator:

Symbol: ~
Symbol name: Tilde
Parts of negation: A simple statement with a tilde preceding it

2. Conjunction:

Symbol: &
Symbol name: Ampersand
Parts of conjunction: Two simple statements joined by the conjunction symbol.

So we can name the statements as follows:

A: I am at home
B: I am playing video games

So the translations is as follows:

~(A&B) = It is not the case that I am at home and am playing video games
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