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To tell: Whether the reasoning process “Ramon noticed that spaghetti has been on the school menu for the past five Wednesdays. Ramon decides that the school always serves spaghetti on Wednesday” is deductive or inductive.
Answer to Problem 1CE
The reasoning process is inductive.
Explanation of Solution
Given information: “Ramon noticed that spaghetti has been on the school menu for the past five Wednesdays. Ramon decides that the school always serves spaghetti on Wednesday”.
From the given statement, it is cleared that the conclusion based on several post observations.
Thus, this conclusion is probably true but not necessarily true.
Therefore, the reasoning process is inductive.
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