Question

Is the following an example of inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning?



Every time this spring that the local meteorologist predicted more than 1 inch of rain for the day, that day’s track practice was cancelled. The meteorologist predicts over 1 inch of rain today, so you expect that track practice for today will be cancelled.




A.


Inductive reasoning



B.


Deductive reasoning

Answer 1

The answer is a

Answer 2

inductive reasoning is when you take a large amount of observations and draw a conclusion based on that large amount of observations that you have,
in your case, the key word is that "every" time the meteorologist predicted something, it caused your practice to be cancelled

Answer 3

A

Answer 4

thats confusing...