1. Is there a real number whose square is -1?

a. Is there a real number x such that x2 = -1?

b. Does there exist x exist such that x2 = -1?
3. Given any two real numbers, there is a number in between.
a. Given any two real numbers a and b, there is a real number c such that c is a < c < b.
b. For any two {a, b ∈ R}, {c ∈ R} such that a < c < b.
5. The reciprocal of any positive real number is positive
a. Given any positive real number r, the reciprocal of r, r > 0.
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b. For any real number r, if r is r > 0, then r > 0.

7. Rewrite the following statements less formally, without using variables. Determine, as best as
you can, whether the statements are true or false.
a. There are real numbers u and v with the property that u + v < u – v.
There are real two numbers with the property that their sum is less than their difference.
True
b. There is a real number x such that x2 < x.
There is a real number such that its square is less than itself. True
c. For all positive integers n, n2 > n.
For all positive integers, their squares are greater than or equal to themselves. True
d. For all real numbers a and b, |a + b| < |a| +|b|.
For all real numbers, the absolute value of the sum of two integers is less than the sum of
their absolute values. True
9. For all equations E, if E, is quadratic then E has at most two real solutions.
a. All quadratic equations have at most two real solutions.
b. Every quadratic equation has at most two real solutions.
c. If an equation is quadratic, then it has at most two real solutions.
d. If E, is quadratic then E, has at most two real solutions.
e. For all quadratic equations E, has at most two real solutions.

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11. Every positive number has a positive square root.
a. All positive numbers have a positive square root.
b. For any positive number e, there is a positive square root for e.
c. For all positive numbers e, there is a positive number r such that there is a positive
square root for e and a positive square root for r.
13. There is a real number whose product with every real number equals zero.
a. Some real number has the property that its product with every real number equals zero.
b. There is a real number a such that the product of a with every real number equals zero.
c. There is a real number a such that the property for every real number b, is a product ab
that equals zero.