creation: 07/07/06

Review of Truth Tables and De Morgan's Rules

1.       Complete the following truth table:

Operand Operand Expression
x <= y y > 100 x <= y && y > 100
F F
F T
T F
T T

Decide from the table what the value of the expression is is when x == 150 and y == 125.

2.       Complete the following truth table:

Operand Operand Expression
ch >= 'a' ch <= 'z' ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z'
F F
F T
T F
T T

Decide from the table what the value of the expression is is when ch == 'A'.

3.       Complete the following truth table:

Operand Operand Operand Subexpression Expression
ch >= 'a' ch <= 'z' ch == '?'ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z'(ch >= 'a' && ch <= 'z') || ch == '?'
F F F
F F T
F T F
F T T
T F F
T F T
T T F
T T T

Decide from the table what the value of the expression is is when ch == 'x'.

4.       Is !A && B equivalent to A || !B   ?   Complete the table to find out.

Operand Operand Subexpression Subexpression Expression Expression
A B !A !B !A && B A || !B
F F
F T
T F
T T

The two expressions are equivalent if the T/F values in the last two columns are the same.

Now use De Morgan's Rule: 

!(A && B) is equivalent to !A || !B

to rewrite !A && B.

5.       You wish to purchase a certificate of deposit, but only if the interest rate is greater than three percent and the minimum deposit is less than 10000. Fill in the blanks. 

if ( interest  3  minimum  10000)
  System.out.println("Buy this CD");
else
  System.out.println("Reject this CD");

Rewrite the above fragment so that it fits the following. 

if ( interest  3  minimum  10000)
  System.out.println("Reject this CD");
else
  System.out.println("Buy this CD");

(The first program fragment is probably the best way to write this.)


6.       A program is searching for books with a call number that starts "QA" published between 1990 and 1995 (inclusive) with the word "web" in the title. Assume that the attributes of a book are accessed by book.getTitle(), book.getDate(), and book.getCall(). Recall that indexOf( String sub ) returns the integer index of the substring, or -1 if the substring is not found. 

if ( book.getCall().indexOf("QA") 0  
     book.getDate().  1990  
     book.getDate().  1995  
     book.getTitle().indexOf("Web")  0)
     
  System.out.println( book.getCall(), book.getTitle() );

(The first program fragment is probably the best way to write this.)


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