Question

Rose picks up a chocolate biscuit from a jar. The first biscuit she eats from the jar is stale. She empties all other biscuits from the jar into the dustbin as she believes that all the other biscuits must also be stale. Which of the following types of reasoning is Rose using in disposing the biscuits away
a) functional
b) deductive
c) inductive
d) accommodative

Answer 1

Answer:

Inductive reasoning

Explanation:

Inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning both are opposite to each other. Inductive reasoning generalized from specific to general viewpoints. For instance, there is data and from data, there is find out a conclusion. Inductive reasoning also called logical reasoning.  

Inductive reasoning has an important place in scientific methods. It is used basically to conduct hypotheses and theories.  

Thus in the above statement, Rose used the inductive reasoning in picking a rose chocolate biscuit from the jar.