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Given the functional dependency R → (S,T) , then it is also true that R → S.

  • A.True
  • B.False

Answer: A

Correct answer: True

If R determines the pair (S, T), then given a value of R the value of S is fixed - the pair could not be determined otherwise. This is the decomposition rule of Armstrong’s axioms, and it is what allows a dependency on a set of attributes to be broken down into a dependency on each of them separately. The converse does not follow.

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