Write the negation of the following statement. I will have tea or coffee.

QUESTION

Miscellaneous Exercise 1 | Q 4.22 | Page 34

Write the negation of the following statement.

I will have tea or coffee.

SOLUTION

Let p : I will have tea.
q : I will have coffee.

The given statement in symbolic form is p ∨ q.

Its negation is ~(p ∨ q) ≡ ~p ∧ ~q.

∴ The negation of given statement is ‘I will not have tea and coffee’.