The statement "If it rains, the ground is wet" is very different from its converse "If the ground is wet, it rained" — someone could have watered the garden. In maths this matters: the converse of a true theorem is not automatically true.
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Class 9 · Ganita Manjari · Unit 9: Propositions and their Converses
Conditionals and their Converses
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