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A+B'C to standard minterm form

Short answer

Expand A+B'C by adding missing variables: A'B'C + AB'C' + AB'C + ABC' + ABC. The standard minterm form is Σm(1,4,5,6,7).

Convert the following term into standard min term. A+B'C.

A standard (canonical) minterm form has all variables in every term. Here the variables are A, B, C.

Step 1: expand each term with the missing variables using X+X‾=1X + \overline{X} = 1.

Term AA (B and C missing):

A=A(B+B‾)(C+C‾)=ABC+ABC‾+AB‾C+AB‾ C‾\begin{aligned} A &= A(B+\overline{B})(C+\overline{C}) \\ &= ABC + AB\overline{C} + A\overline{B}C + A\overline{B}\,\overline{C} \end{aligned}

Term B‾C\overline{B}C (A missing):

B‾C=B‾C(A+A‾)=AB‾C+A‾ B‾C\overline{B}C = \overline{B}C(A+\overline{A}) = A\overline{B}C + \overline{A}\,\overline{B}C

Step 2: add the terms and keep the repeated one only once (AB‾CA\overline{B}C appears twice; X+X=XX + X = X):

F=ABC+ABC‾+AB‾C+AB‾ C‾+A‾ B‾CF = ABC + AB\overline{C} + A\overline{B}C + A\overline{B}\,\overline{C} + \overline{A}\,\overline{B}C

Step 3: write the minterm numbers

TermABCMinterm
A‾ B‾C\overline{A}\,\overline{B}C001m1m_1
AB‾ C‾A\overline{B}\,\overline{C}100m4m_4
AB‾CA\overline{B}C101m5m_5
ABC‾AB\overline{C}110m6m_6
ABCABC111m7m_7
F=A+B‾C=Σm(1,4,5,6,7)F = A + \overline{B}C = \Sigma m(1,4,5,6,7)

Check: F = 1 whenever A = 1 (rows 4 to 7) or when B = 0, C = 1 (rows 1 and 5), which gives the same set.

✓ Answer checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (high effort)

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