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1-1 Patterns and Inductive Reasoning

This document summarizes a geometry lesson on patterns and inductive reasoning. It contains examples of identifying patterns in number sequences and using those patterns to make conjectures or predictions about subsequent terms. It also discusses using counterexamples to show that a conjecture is incorrect. The document provides step-by-step work through multiple examples of finding patterns, making conjectures, and identifying counterexamples.

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1-1 Patterns and Inductive Reasoning

This document summarizes a geometry lesson on patterns and inductive reasoning. It contains examples of identifying patterns in number sequences and using those patterns to make conjectures or predictions about subsequent terms. It also discusses using counterexamples to show that a conjecture is incorrect. The document provides step-by-step work through multiple examples of finding patterns, making conjectures, and identifying counterexamples.

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Chapter 1: Tools of Geometry

1-1 Patterns and Inductive Reasoning

Objective:
1.To use inductive reasoning to make conjectures

Bookwork: pgs. 6 7 18, 25-28, 31-36 all

#s 1-12, 17-

Patterns and Inductive Reasoning


GEOMETRY LESSON 1-1

(For help, go the Skills Handbook, page 753.)

Here is a list of the counting numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, . . . Some are even and some are odd. 1. Make a list of the positive even numbers. 2. Make a list of the positive odd numbers. 3. Copy and extend this list to show the first 10 perfect squares. 12 = 1, 22 = 4, 32 = 9, 42 = 16, . . . 4. Which do you think describes the square of any odd number? It is odd. It is even.

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Solutions 1. Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, . . . 2. Odd numbers end in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, . . . 3. 12 = (1)(1) = 1; 22 = (2)(2) = 4; 32 = (3)(3) = 9; 42 = (4)(4) = 16; 52 = (5)(5) = 25; 62 = (6)(6) = 36; 72 = (7)(7) = 49; 82 = (8)(8) = 64; 92 = (9)(9) = 81; 102 = (10)(10) = 100 4. The odd squares in Exercise 3 are all odd, so the square of any odd number is odd.

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Inductive Reasoning reasoning that is based on patterns you observe. If you observe a pattern in a sequence, you can use inductive reasoning to tell what the next terms in the sequence will be.

Patterns and Inductive Reasoning


GEOMETRY LESSON 1-1

Find a pattern for the sequence. Use the pattern to show the next two terms in the sequence. 384, 192, 96, 48,

Each term is half the preceding term. So the next two terms are 48 2 = 24 and 24 2 = 12.

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Conjecture A conclusion you reach using inductive reasoning

Counterexample an example for which a conjecture is incorrect

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Find a counterexample for each conjecture. a. A number is always greater than its reciprocal. Sample counterexamples: 1 is not greater than 1 = 1.
1 1 is not greater than 2. 2

b. If a number is divisible by 5, then it is divisible by 10. Sample counterexample: 25 is divisible by 5 but not by 10.

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GEOMETRY LESSON 1-1

The price of overnight shipping was $8.00 in 2000, $9.50 in 2001, and $11.00 in 2002. Make a conjecture about the price in 2003. Write the data in a table. Find a pattern. 2000 2001 2002

$8.00 $9.50 $11.00 Each year the price increased by $1.50. A possible conjecture is that the price in 2003 will increase by $1.50. If so, the price in 2003 would be $11.00 + $1.50 = $12.50.
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Find a pattern for each sequence. Use the pattern to show the next two terms or figures. 1. 3, 6, 18, 72, 360 2160; 15,120 2. Show that the conjecture is false by one counterexample. 3. The sum of two prime numbers is an even number.

Sample: 2 + 3 = 5, and 5 is not even 1-1

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