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Activity 3: Introduction

Logical reasoning is a dynamic and exciting discipline that challenges your mind and helps you sharpen your thinking skills.
Team workers solving problems on a laptop.

In this activity, we will learn how we can apply logic to solve puzzles.

We are going to do some logical reasoning – the ultimate mental workout! It’s a dynamic and exciting discipline that challenges your mind and helps you sharpen your thinking skills. Whether you’re solving a complex puzzle or making an important decision, logical reasoning empowers you to think critically, analyse information and draw accurate conclusions.

Get ready to build on what we learned earlier – this is the part of the course when all the components of propositional logic come together and completing this activity will help you to solve a mystery and work out who stole the cookies from the cookie jar!

We will start by looking at how to build truth tables. See you there!

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