So i have been asked to prove this statement in one of my courses.
In class we learned that if we want to disprove for-all statement we should prove there-exist statement, and if we want to disprove there-exist statements we should prove for-all statement.
So to begin my disprove of the statement I started by choosing x = 1/2 and let y be a real number.
But my question is how to use n?
should I prove there-exist statement, because like I said above - when we want to disprove for-all statement we should prove there-exist statement, and by so to choose n to be a specific (natural) number.
or should I let n be a natural number?
I know it may seem a basic question, but I really can't determine why is one of the above correct, and i would like to know in general how to prove this kind of statements.