Friday, February 12, 2010

True or False. The sum of two numbers is always greater than the larger number?

Show the conjecture is false by finding a counterexample.True or False. The sum of two numbers is always greater than the larger number?
not if one of the numbers is negative.





i.e 5+(-2)=3True or False. The sum of two numbers is always greater than the larger number?
False for that number can be





1. Negative





2. Imaginary Number, i, which i = square root of -1



False, if one of the two numbers is negative.

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