3 MOST IMPORTANT KINDS OF

MATHEMATICAL STATEMENTS

CONDITIONAL
UNIVERSAL STATEMENT
EXISTENTIAL
STATEMENT
STATEMENT
 UNIVERSAL STATEMENT
➢ a property that is true for all
elements in a set
➢ Uses the quantifiers “all”, “every”,
and “each”.
EXAMPLE: Every positive integer
is greater than 1.
CONDITIONAL STATEMENT
➢ a property that if it has one
element that is true, then some
other element also has to be true
EXAMPLE:
If 180 is divisible by 30, then
180 is divisible by 12.
 EXISTENTIAL STATEMENT
➢ a property that shows the
existence of at least one element
in a set that could make a
property true, given a property
that may or may not be true
EXAMPLE: There is a positive number
that its square is equal to itself.
COMBINATION OF THE STATEMENTS

UNIVERSAL CONDITIONAL
1 STATEMENT

UNIVERSAL EXISTENTIAL
2 STATEMENT

EXISTENTIAL UNIVERSAL
3 STATEMENT
UNIVERSAL CONDITIONAL STATEMENT
➢ a statement that consists of the word
“for all” which represents the universal
statement and the word “if-then” which
represents the conditional statement
EXAMPLE:
For all numbers 𝒏, if 𝒏 is greater
than 1, then 𝒏 is greater than 𝒏 .
𝟑 𝟐
Two ways of writing the statements
➢ Purely Universal
❖ For all numbers 𝒏 greater than 1,
𝒏 is greater than 𝒏 .
𝟑 𝟐

➢ Purely Conditional
❖ If a number 𝒏 greater than 1, then
𝒏 is greater than 𝒏 .
𝟑 𝟐
 UNIVERSAL EXISTENTIAL STATEMENT
➢ its first part is consist of quantifiers either
“all”, “every”, or “each” which represents
the universal statement and the second
part assert the existence of something
which represents the existential statement.
EXAMPLE:
Every negative integer has a positive
square.
Can also be written in the following form:
➢ All negative integers have a positive
squares.
➢ For all negative integers 𝒙, there is a
positive square for 𝒙.
➢ For all negative integers 𝒙, there is
an integer 𝒛 such that 𝒛 is the
positive square for 𝒙.
 EXISTENTIAL UNIVERSAL STATEMENT
➢ first part of this statement declares the
existence of a certain value. On the other hand,
the second part states that a certain value
reaches the satisfaction of a certain property
that applies to all things of a certain type.
EXAMPLE:
There is a positive number that is less than
or equal to every positive number.
Can also be written in the following form:
➢ Some positive number is less than or equal
to every positive number.
➢ There is a positive number 𝒌 that is less than
or equal to every positive number.
➢ There is a positive number 𝒌 such that every
positive number is greater than or equal to 𝒌.
➢ There is a positive number 𝒌 with a property
that for all positive number 𝒉, 𝒌 ≤ 𝒉.