When it comes to deductive reasoning, it is used to reach a logical solution. You start out with the general statement, or hypothesis, and examine all the possibilities so you can reach the final conclusion.
Inductive reasoning is completely opposite - you focus on specific observations, and then make broad generalizations.
<span>Inductive reasoning is used when finding or forming a conjecture. Deductive reasoning is used to prove a conjecture. In math we usually start with a conjecture and then prove it using deductive reasoning. </span>
