Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 1 - Section 1.5 - Nested Quantifiers - Exercises - Page 67: 21

Answer

$\forall x ((x>0) \rightarrow x=a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+d^{2})$

Work Step by Step

Let the domain be all integers. An integer is positive, if the integer is larger than 0. We can rewrite the given sentence as: β€œFor all integers x, if x is positive, then there exists four integers a, b, c and d such that x is the sum of the squares of the four integers.β€œ $\forall x ((x>0) \rightarrow x=a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}+d^{2})$
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