Stage: 5 Challenge Level: 
What if the statement you are trying to prove is not true?
Powers & roots. FP mapping. Stage 5 - Reviewed 2012. Rational and irrational numbers. Number theory. Theorem and contrapositive. Inequality/inequalities. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Manipulating algebraic expressions/formulae. Square numbers.
Published June 2000.
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