Question

You visit a farm and notice that white chickens lay white eggs and colored chickens lay brown eggs, so you decide that only white chickens lay white eggs. What type of reasoning is this?

a) inductive
b) deductive

Answer 1

This reasoning is an INDUCTIVE reasoning. We can define this as a generalization based on observations. That describes perfectly what you put above.

Answer 2

Inductive

Explanation

Its a logical process in which a number of premises all believed true or sometimes found true most of the time and combined to come up with specific conclusions. Its mostly used in applications that do involve behavior, forecasting and makes broader generalization that is considered probable. For example a speculation that all crows are black and each time a new crow is observed and found out that its black the assumption is increasingly confirmed. On the other hand if the crow is found not to be black then the assumption's found to be false..