Taking the contrapositive of this statement?

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The discussion centers on the logical structure of the contrapositive of the statement regarding angle defects in triangles. The original statement asserts that if every right triangle has an angle defect of zero, then every triangle must also have an angle defect of zero. The correct contrapositive derived from this statement is: if there exists at least one triangle with a non-zero angle defect, then there exists at least one right triangle with a non-zero angle defect. This highlights the importance of understanding logical implications and contrapositives in mathematical reasoning.

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Statement: If every right triangle has angle defect equal to zero then the angle defect of every triangle is equal to zero

Taking the contrapositive do i have this correct? : There exists at least one triangle whose angle defect is not zero such that not every right triangle has an angle defect equal to zero.
 
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The contrapositive of a conditional is another conditional. But there appears to be no conditional in your version - instead, you've a 'such that'. 'if' at the front and 'then' for 'such that',
 
R = the set of all right triangles
T = the set set of triangles
Z = the set of all triangles with angle defect zero

If (for all x in R, x is in Z), then (for all x in T, x is in Z).

The contrapositive of ##p\Rightarrow q## is ##\lnot q\Rightarrow\lnot p##, so the contrapositive of the implication above is

If (there exists an x in T such that x is not in Z), then (there exists an x in R such that x is not in Z).
 

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