Deductive vs Inductive

What does deductive reasoning use to form its arguments?

• patterns

• specific cases

• observed examples

• facts, definitions, accepted properties, and laws of logic

Determine the type of reasoning:

I got up at six o'clock for the past week. I will get up at 6 tomorrow.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Neither

Determine the type of reasoning:

In the sequence, 1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, the next most probable number is 22.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Neither

Determine the type of reasoning:

Gas prices have gone down for the past few days. The price of gas will go down tomorrow.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Neither

Determine the type of reasoning:

Every even number is divisible by 2. 1986 is an even number, therefore it is divisible by two.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Neither

Determine the type of reasoning:

Every president of the United States has been male. The next two presidents will be male.

• Inductive

• Deductive

• Neither