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Consider the following argument. If you drink coffee, then you do not relax and do not sleep. Relaxing or sleeping is necessary for not worrying. You drink coffee. Therefore, you worry.
a. Use the symbols below to write the argument in symbolic form.
p: You drink coffee.
r: You relax.
s: You sleep
w: You worry
b. Use a truth table to test the validity of the argument
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