1) I heard lots of barking last night. The neighbour’s dog must’ve been pretty upset about something, since he rarely barks. a) deductive b) inductive c) analogical 2) All dogs bark. Fido is a dog, so he barks. a) deductive b) inductive c) analogical 3) On a National Geographic map, no two adjacent nations appear shaded with the same color. Brazil is shaded green on this map, and it is a National Geographic map. Only two nations in South America are not adjacent to Brazil. So at most three South American nations on this map are shaded green. a) Inductive b) deductive c) analogical 4) The majority rules in the House of Representatives. Either the Democrats or the Republicans will control the House of Representatives. As there are an odd number of representatives in the House, it follows that there is no way there will be a tie in the House of Representatives. a) inductive b) analogical c) deductive 5) No book in English begins numbering its pages on a left-hand page. This is a book in English, therefore it will begin its numbering on a right-hand page. a) inductive b) deductive c) analogical 6) Based on a survey of 2200 randomly selected likely voters, 56.2% indicate that they will vote for the incumbent in the upcoming election. Therefore, approximately 56% of the votes in the upcoming election will be for the incumbent. a) deductive b) analogical c) inductive 7) The overwhelming majority of mutations are not beneficial to an organism’s survival. So the odds are that no mutation is going to give an organism super powers. a) analogical b) deductive c) inductive 8) Some cookies are burnt. Some burnt things are good to eat. So some cookies are good to eat. a) deductive b) inductive c) anlaogical 9) The telegraph was a technological breakthrough that allowed rapid communication across vast distances. In doing so, it made communities more homogeneous and diminished diversity. Ultimately, the benefits probably outweigh such hard-to-measure costs. a) deductive b) analogical c) inductive 10) All reptiles ever examined are cold-blooded. Dinosaurs resemble reptiles in many ways. So dinosaurs were cold-blooded. a) deductive b) inductive c) analogical

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