After interviewing the victim of a crime and two witnesses and examining the crime scene and the physical evidence, you use all of this information as a basis for developing a unifying and internally consistent explanation of the event. You have ________.

A. committed Locard's Fallacy
B. used inductive reasoning
C. used deductive reasoning
D. proceeded in an unobjective manner


Answer: B

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