INSTRUCTIONS: The following problems relate to identifying and evaluating inductive and deductive arguments. Select the best answer for each. The Chairman of Big Tex Oil Company stated that oil company executives are drastically underpaid. Therefore, it must be the case that oil company executives are indeed underpaid, just as the Chairman says
A) Deductive, sound.
B) Inductive, weak.
C) Inductive, strong.
D) Deductive, valid.
E) Deductive, invalid.
B
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