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hannah plays basketball\ is a true statement and \bashir flips a coin and it comes up heads\ is a statement, evaluate the truth of the statement \hannah plays basketball and bashir flips a coin it comes up heads.\ answer attempt 1 out of 2. and statements are true if
An "and" (conjunction) logical statement is only true when both of its component statements are true. Here, we know "Hannah plays basketball" is true, but the truth value of "Bashir flips a coin and it comes up heads" is not given. Without confirmation that the second statement is true, the combined "and" statement cannot be confirmed as true; it is undetermined, but following the rule for conjunction: and statements are true if both parts are true.
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both of the connected statements are true; the combined statement's truth cannot be confirmed (we only know one part is true, the other's truth is unspecified)