Question

Decide if the two statements are logically equivalent statements, negations or neither ​

Answer 1

Negations.

Explanation:

The first statement is:

p ∧ q

(p and q)

This statement is only true when:

p = true

and

q = true.

And is false in all the other cases.

The other statement is:

¬q ∨ ¬p

(not q or not p)

This statement is only true if at least one of the elements is true, this happens if:

q =false (then ¬q = true)

or

p = false (then ¬p = true)

Then the first statement needs p and q to be true.

The second statement needs at least one of these to be false.

This means that when the first statement is true, the second statement is false.

When the first statement is false, the second one is true.

Then the statements are negations.