Inductive Reasoning Deductive Reasoning Your roommate takes a daily multivitamin
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Question
Inductive Reasoning Deductive Reasoning Your roommate takes a daily multivitamin and has had no colds during the past 2 years. You never take multivitamins and have had 3 colds during the past 2 years. Therefore you hypothesize that taking a multivitamin reduces the chances of getting a cold. You dissect 10 frogs and observe that each one has 1 heart and 2 kidneys. Therefore you hypothesize that all frogs have 1 heart and 2 kidneys. All mammals, by definition, have hair. Since your pet snake does not have hair you conclude she is not a mammal. Overwhelming evidence indicates that smoking increases the risk of getting lung cancer. Therefore you conclude that if you smoke your chances of getting lung cancer will increase.Explanation / Answer
Yes both examples are correct, as in Inductive reasoning one makes generalized statements based on specific information and in Deductive reasoning one makes specific statements based on general observations