What’s is inductive reasoning?

Inductive reasoning is when someone observes data, recognizes patterns within these observations, and then draws a conclusion on these observations that they found.

Let's look at an example.

A 12-oz. coke bottle exploded after an hour in the freezer.

A second 12-oz. coke bottle exploded after an hour in the freezer.

The reasoning that was used here was inductive reasoning.

Although we might want to test a few more 12-oz. coke bottles, we can tentatively conclude that all 12-oz. coke bottles will explode after an hour in the freezer.

Since were using oneservations and recognizing patterns to draw a

conclusion, our conclusion is based on inductive reasoning.

when heated, the valance electrons increased their speed and transferred the heat from electron to electron.   i just took the test.