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Betty was sitting at a coffee shop reading her favorite book. She heard an explosion nearby. In a few minutes, she could hear ambulance sirens. She concluded that an accident had occurred and people were injured. Which reasoning did Betty use?

A.
analogical
B.
deductive
C.
inductive
D.
abductive

Betty was sitting at a coffee shop reading her favorite book. She heard an explosion-example-1
User Torsten Bronger
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B- Deductive is the answer
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Answer:

I'm sure that she used deductive reasoning to make the assumption that there were people injured. So the answer is b

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