Wikipedia defines "deductive reasoning" as "Deductive reasoning, also deductive logic, logical deduction is the process of reasoning from one or more statements (premises) to reach a logically certain conclusion."
The best example of deductive reasoning from the given options is :
C. Everyone in Mr. Kim's class got an A on the test. Casey is in Mr. Kim's class, so he must have received an A on the test.
In the above sentence the logical conclusion is that "Casey must have received an A on the test." The logical conclusion is based on the two statements, "Everyone in Mr. Kim's class got an A on the test." and "Casey is in Mr. Kim's class."
Try puting yourself in the authors point of view and relate to jimmy. Like the author starts to feel empathy for Jimmy and learns lessons from him. The author starts to connect to Jimmy for example when (...)
