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Deductive or inductive? Valid/invalid or strong/weak? 1. If organic food contains pesticides, then consumers are misled. Organic food does not contain pesticides. Therefore, consumers are not misled. 2. All aerobic exercises are calorie burners and all calorie burners are weight reducers. Thus, all aerobic exercises are weight reducers. 3. When Jack took his car in for service, the mechanic charged him for lots of work that didn't need to be done. The same thing happened to Niki and Claire. Apparently mechanics these days are just a bunch of crooks. 4. Graffiti painted on that vacant building says "Boycott Meat." Therefore, it's clear that we should all become vegetarians. 5. James Bloomfield, the widely respected expert on art authentication, says that the painting recently discovered in the basement of the art museum is a genuine Picasso. Therefore, we conclude that the painting is indeed a genuine Picasso. 6. Some fruit is red. All strawberries are fruit. Therefore, some strawberries are red.

          Deductive or inductive? Valid/invalid or strong/weak?
1. If organic food contains pesticides, then consumers are misled. Organic food does not contain pesticides. Therefore, consumers are not misled. 
2. All aerobic exercises are calorie burners and all calorie burners are weight reducers. Thus, all aerobic exercises are weight reducers. 
3. When Jack took his car in for service, the mechanic charged him for lots of work that didn't need to be done. The same thing happened to Niki and Claire. Apparently mechanics these days are just a bunch of crooks. 
4. Graffiti painted on that vacant building says "Boycott Meat." Therefore, it's clear that we should all become vegetarians.
5. James Bloomfield, the widely respected expert on art authentication, says that the painting recently discovered in the basement of the art museum is a genuine Picasso. Therefore, we conclude that the painting is indeed a genuine Picasso.
6. Some fruit is red.  All strawberries are fruit.  Therefore, some strawberries are red.

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Deductive or inductive? Valid/invalid or strong/weak? 1. If organic food contains pesticides, then consumers are misled. Organic food does not contain pesticides. Therefore, consumers are not misled. 2. All aerobic exercises are calorie burners and all calorie burners are weight reducers. Thus, all aerobic exercises are weight reducers. 3. When Jack took his car in for service, the mechanic charged him for lots of work that didn't need to be done. The same thing happened to Niki and Claire. Apparently mechanics these days are just a bunch of crooks. 4. Graffiti painted on that vacant building says "Boycott Meat." Therefore, it's clear that we should all become vegetarians. 5. James Bloomfield, the widely respected expert on art authentication, says that the painting recently discovered in the basement of the art museum is a genuine Picasso. Therefore, we conclude that the painting is indeed a genuine Picasso. 6. Some fruit is red. All strawberries are fruit. Therefore, some strawberries are red.

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00:01 All right, so this question is about inductive versus deductive reasoning.

00:07 And it's very helpful.

00:09 It gives a definition of both of those at the beginning of the problems.

00:13 I'm not going to read that.

00:15 But it asks you to read each of these statements and determine which is inductive versus deductive.

00:20 So the important thing to know is that inductive reasoning deals with patterns and observing things happening multiple times and then drawing a conclusion from that.

00:30 Deductive reasoning is a typically if -then statement.

00:34 You have something to start with, and that has a certain result is one way of thinking about those.

00:42 So number one, it says all students go to school.

00:45 You are a student, therefore you go to school.

00:47 So you have one piece of information, and then you have a result that comes from that.

00:52 That is deductive.

00:56 You're given a statement.

00:58 We know that the beginning of it is true, therefore the end of it is true.

01:02 The hypothesis we call it is true, therefore the conclusion is true.

01:07 And then number two, it says since it rained every new year's day for the last four years, it will rain this new year's day.

01:13 So the keyword there is the last four years.

01:16 That's a pattern...

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