Question

Identify the type of reasoning used in the following statement as inductive or deductive.

Premise: When the temperature stays below 20 ºF for more than 24 hours, the pipes freeze.
Situation: The high today is 13 ºF.
Conclusion: The pipes will freeze.

deductive
inductive

Answer 1

Inductive

Step-by-step explanation:

This is an inductive statement as they are using a generalization and making a statement based off of that. They know that temperatures under 32 causes water to freeze, and they know that today the weather will be under 32 degrees. Therefore, they claim that their pipes will freeze.

If this were a deductive, they would claim that the pipes are going to freeze and then they would watch and take their final conclusion after the pipes have frozen.