Writing for all logic in 2 forms, can some one see if I did this right?

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The discussion focuses on rewriting logical statements using universal quantifiers in two specified forms. The user successfully reformulated the statement "Every computer science student needs to take data structures" into the logical expressions \forall x, if x is a computer science student, then x needs to take data structures and \forall computer science student x, x needs to take data structures. The correct use of quantifiers and logical implications is affirmed by other participants in the forum.

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ello ello!

The directions are the following:

Rewrite each of the following statements in the two forms [tex]\forall x[/tex],
if ____ then ___ and
[tex]\forall[/tex] _____ x, _____

For some reason the latex keeps putting an x for the 2nd form, but it should be
Upside down A ______ x, _______ for the 2nd form they want.Every computer science student needs to take data structures.

I did the following:
[tex]\forall[/tex] x, if x is a computer science student, then x needs to take data structures.

[tex]\forall[/tex] computer science student x, x needs to take data structures.

Thanks!
 
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Looks right to me.
 
THanks for the help!
 

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