INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. Time magazine carried an article on the huge hurricane that struck the Caiman Islands. Newsweek is similar in its coverage to Time. Thus, Newsweek must have carried an article on that hurricane
A) Deductive, sound.
B) Inductive, strong.
C) Deductive, invalid.
D) Deductive, valid.
E) Inductive, weak.
B
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