A yellow jacket, an insect in the order hymenoptera, stung you. Then a wasp, an insect in hymenoptera, stung you as well. A hornet, an insect in hymenoptera, stung you last. It is an observable pattern that all insects in this order must have stingers. The type of reasoning this represents is  

A. deductive reasoning.
B. inductive reasoning.
C. reductionism.
D. comparative reasoning.


Answer: B

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