Question: What type of human knowledge is "the sun rises in the East"?

Is "Mathematical and logical propositions (e.g. "that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world (e.g. "the sun rises in the East") are examples of the second." the correct answer?
pick from the following.
(a). yes
(b). no
(b).