All welfare recipients are poor. Ahmed is poor. Therefore, Ahmed is a welfare recipient. This illustrates a(n) ________.

A. weak inductive argument
B. invalid deductive argument
C. strong inductive argument
D. valid deductive argument


Answer: B

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