Question

Is the following an example of inductive reasoning or deductive reasoning? Your soccer coach tells you it is wise to drink a lot of fluids during practice so you don’t get dehydrated. Before practice, you buy a two bottles of water and a bottle of sports drink to bring to practice. A. Inductive reasoning B. Deductive reasoning

Answer 1

The answer is B. Deductive reasoning consists in taking an assumption, in this case the fact that drinking a lot of fluids during practice will help you to not get dehydrated, present an evidence and then make a specific claim out of it, in this case you went to buy two bottles of water and a sports drink to bring to practice.