BOOLEAN or TINYINT confusion

Question

I was designing a database for a site where I need to use a boolean datetype to store only 2 states, true or false. I am using MySQL.
While designing the database using

Answer 1

The numeric type overview for MySQL states: BOOL, BOOLEAN: These types are synonyms for TINYINT(1). A value of zero is considered false. Nonzero values are considered true.

See here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/numeric-type-overview.html