Lesson

10
Warm Up 10

1. Inductive

2. conjecture

3. x = -_
3
2

Lesson Practice 10

a. Hypothesis: x = 4 and
y = 2; Conclusion:
2x + 3y = 14

b. Hypothesis: an apple
is a golden delicious
apple; Conclusion: the
apple is yellow in color.

c. true

d. If x = 3 or -3, then
x 2 = 9; true.

e If it is Thursday, then
it is Thanksgiving Day;
false.

f. If a cardinal is bright
red, then it is a male;
true.

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Practice 10 9. no; A statement’s
converse can be false
1. 13 miles; Segment even if the statement
Addition Postulate itself is true; See
2. 45 in. student work.

3. yes; By definition, 10. yes; If an animal’s

parallel lines are expected life span is
coplanar. approximately 70 years,
then it is a loggerhead
4. If a number is an sea turtle.
integer, then it is a
rational number. 11. 0.26%

5. (x - 7)(x + 3) 12. m = _
E
2
c

6. The statement is always 13. It is impossible to draw

nonnegative for all real a second line because
numbers x, because of the Parallel Postulate.
the numerator is always 14. 6.32
nonnegative, and the
denominator is positive. 15. k = 8 or k = -6; There
are two solutions
7. B because the segment
8. The Ruler Postulate can extend in either of
refers to measures of two directions.
distance whereas the
Protractor Postulate
refers to angle
measures.

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16. It is not possible 25. There could be one
because the lines are obtuse angle and two
straight. They intersect acute angles whose
at the same angle on measures would sum to
both sides of the line. 180°. The student could
Therefore, the vertical say, “If the measures of
angles will be equal. three angles sum to 90°,
then the angles are all
17. vertical angles acute.”
18. Yes, as long as they are 26. The student incorrectly
measuring the same added the center term.
amount, but you must The answer should be
convert one into the unit 2
x - x - 6.
of the other.
27. rational numbers and
19. Sample: expressing real numbers
distances between
planets 28. 5; 13; The answers are
different because in
20. Reflexive Property of the first, the absolute
Equality value of the numbers’
21. 30 ft
2 sum is found, but in the
second, the absolute
22. 243 value of each number is
found before adding.
23. 9 × 1016
29. C
24. x = 3
30. Whole Numbers

Natural
Numbers

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