I should point out, as I’m looking at this homework I handed out again, that the two sentences in (1) (1a: Texas is bigger than Alaska, 1b: Alaska is smaller than Texas) are both false. Texas is in fact smaller than Alaska, but this need not get in the way of your answering the question.

I could have sworn I typed that right this morning as I was putting the homework together, but somehow it escaped my notice that I’d accidentally reversed them.