4) Identify the property of Statement particular from
The following statement
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Much of our work in mathematics deals with statements. In mathematics, a statement is a declarative sentence that is either true or false but not both. A statement is sometimes called a proposition. The key is that there must be no ambiguity. To be a statement, a sentence must be true or false, and it cannot be both. So a sentence such as "The sky is beautiful" is not a statement since whether the sentence is true or not is a matter of opinion. A question such as "Is it raining?" is not a statement because it is a question and is not declaring or asserting that something is true.
Some sentences that are mathematical in nature often are not statements because we may not know precisely what a variable represents. For example, the equation 2 x +5 = 10 is not a statement since we do not know what x represents. If we substitute a specific value for x (such as x = 3), then the resulting equation, 2 ⋅ 3 +5 = 10 is a statement (which is a false statement