Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

Using the statements:
If it is Friday, then I will get paid.
It is Friday.
What is the conclusion?

• It is not Friday
• It is Friday
• I will not get paid
• I will get paid

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CCSS.HSS.CP.A.3

CCSS.HSS.CP.B.6

Inductive Reasoning means...

• Guessing
• Testing and observing patterns to make conjectures
• Explaining why
• Ura nok seblu!

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CCSS.HSF.BF.A.2

All chickens that we have seen have been brown; so, all chickens are brown. 

• Deductive
• Inductive

It is dangerous to drive on icy streets.  The streets are icy now so it is dangerous to drive now. 

• Deductive
• Inductive

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which of these is a counterexample to the following statement?

All farm animals have four legs.

• Cows

• Penguins

• Elephants

• Chickens

Which of the following is a counterexample for this conditional statement:

If a fraction has a numerator of 2, then the fraction can be reduced.

• 2/4

• 2/5

• 2/30

• 2/6