Determine whether the argument is would-be-deductive or inductive: Every romanti

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Determine whether the argument is would-be-deductive or inductive:

Every romantic comedy has the same form: boy meets girl and everything is great. Something bad happens and they split up. They realize they are meant to be together and get back together. This movie is a romantic comedy so it’s going to be the same way

I don’t understand why people like blue cheese. It’s got mold all over it! You wouldn’t eat moldy bread so why would you eat blue cheese?

Transylvania is in Romania. Dracula is from Transylvania, so he is Romanian.

She has long hair, a perfect smile, and she’s a supermodel. She must be gorgeous.

Explanation / Answer

Every romantic comedy has the same form: boy meets girl and everything is great. Something bad happens and they split up. They realize they are meant to be together and get back together. This movie is a romantic comedy so it’s going to be the same way.

Since we have an assertion and deduce a result based on it, the argument is a deductive.

I don’t understand why people like blue cheese. It’s got mold all over it! You wouldn’t eat moldy bread so why would you eat blue cheese?

Here, an assertion is followed by another which is not definitely true. The argument is inductive.

Transylvania is in Romania. Dracula is from Transylvania, so he is Romanian.

The first statement is an assertion and the result of the second is deduced from the first. So the argument is deductive.

She has long hair, a perfect smile, and she’s a supermodel. She must be gorgeous.

The first statement is an assertion and the result is not definitely derived from it. So the argument is inductive.

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