According to Your Textbook, What Kind Oreasoning Is Used in the Following

question 286

Multiple Choice

According to your textbook, what kind oreasoning is used in the following statement?
Last summer, a five-year-old boy in Seattle was killed by his brother when the two were playing with their father's gun. Last month, four-year-old Dylan Jackson accidentally killed himselafter finding a loaded gun at a friend's home during a birthday party. In Tampa, Florida, a two-year-old shot himselin the chest with a pistol left in the family couch. Clearly, children in America are at risk from gun accidents.

• A) chain reasoning
• B) reasoning from principle
• C) deductive reasoning
• D) reasoning from specific instances
• E) analogical reasoning

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Definitions:

Retained Earnings

The portion of a company's profit that is held back and not distributed to shareholders, used for reinvestment or debt payment.

Dividend

A distribution of a portion of a company's earnings, decided by the board of directors, to a class of its shareholders.

Expense Matching

An accounting principle that states expenses should be recorded in the same period as the revenues they helped to generate, to accurately match income with expenses.

Cause and Effect

A relationship where one event (the cause) leads to the outcome of another event (the effect).