Answer:
C. She wants the reader to regard her as a serious student. The more serious a student (when it comes to learning) someone regards you, the better of an impression they have on you.
B.) As a stickler about statistics, I was disturbed by Mr. Schlosser's cavalier manipulation of data, which produced some startling — and, frankly, unbelievable — "facts."
I think it's deductive because you used information available to deduce and infer something. It is not certain.
