Question

Is this reasoning inductive or deductive? explain why.

1. all pennies are copper. if your friend gives you a penny, you conclude that the penny is copper colored.

2. all even numbers are divisible by 2. 28 is even. therefore, 28 is divisible by 2.

please help me out with this and also include reasoning! thank you so much!

Answer 1

Answer: The reasonings are deductive. They tried to do a trick question I think.

Step-by-step explanation: There both deductive because the first sentence has a key word which is Conclude. The word might not seem to matter until you look up what deductive means. Deductive and Inductive are different because one is specifics observation and then draw a conclusion and the other is specifics conclusion follows a general theory. And the key word in deductive is conclusion in the first sentence it says that you conclude. Deductive means a conclusion that follows a general theory. The deductive is following a general theory which means if the facts are right then the conclusion should be right. The deductive makes sense in the first because if the facts that all the pennies are copper is true then the penny your friend gave you should be copper. The second sentence same thing if the fact was right then any number that is even can be divisible by 2. So deductive makes sense in both sentences. Inductive makes sense it inside one on the sentences not both. Inductive makes sense inside the first because the person could have seen that the pennies were all made of copper. i think that it being deductive is a better choice that inductive and if you still are confused you can look up "difference between inductive and deductive reasoning" and go to images it should have a blue and pink picture of the definition of them. Sorry I wrote it so long you can just shortened it down for the answer.

Answer 2

No. 1 is inductive, cos the evidence is based on proberbility as not all pennies are silver color, since thier color could change over time (fade)

while

No 2 is deductive since all even numners are divisible by 2, there is a full assurance of the outcome.