A student is designing an experiment to find out if the following statement is true: "If you get at least six hours of sleep, you will do better in class than if you get fewer than six hours of sleep." The statement is an example of which of the following?


Answer: Hypothesis.

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The Qur'an specifies a particular form of government

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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The successor of Muhammad, for centuries a political as well as a religious figure, was called

A. hadith. B. jihad. C. qiblah. D. caliph.

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Here is an argument with an unstated premise or conclusion. Translate it into a standard-form syllogism and determine whether the reasoning is valid.Anyone who missed class failed the course. Therefore, Cecile missed class.

What will be an ideal response?

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At one point during the speech Socrates imagines the laws of Athens, the Laws say, "For, after having brought you into the world, nurtured and educated you, and given you and every other citizen a share in every good we had to give, we further give the right to every Athenian, if he does not like us when he has come of age and has seen the ways of the city, he may go wherever else he pleases and

take his goods with him." This argument implies that A) since Socrates stayed in Athens, he stayed involuntarily. B) if you leave Athens, you must still obey her laws. C) if one voluntarily enjoys the benefits of a state, one assumes obligations to obey its laws. D) Socrates was not free to leave Athens when he came of age.

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