All professional athletes earn a lot of money. Wes plays professional football so he makes a lot of money. What type of reasoning is this?

inductive
deductive

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All professional athletes earn a lot of money. Wes plays professional football so he makes a lot of money. What type of reasoning is this?

inductive
deductive

ineedserioushelp · Answer

Definitely deductive. After having prior information, you deduced from it that because pro athletes make large sums of money, Wes being one, makes it too.

anonymous · Answer

that's what I thought, i saw this question posted from a year ago and some said inductive so  I wasn't really sure. Thank you!

ineedserioushelp · Answer

No problem :).