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Read the scenario, then answer the question.

A man has a bag of peanuts. He takes three peanuts from the bag and finds that each one is coated in chocolate. He reasons that the peanuts in the bag are chocolate-covered peanuts.

What kind of reasoning is this?

A. reductive
B. inductive
C. deductive
D. technical

User Jorgehmv
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B inductive is your answer
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User FlexedCookie
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B: Inductive Your answer is inductive because inductive means to predict. The man predicted the rest of the peanuts were going to be coated with chocolate because the 3 ones he took out were!

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