Chemistry for Engineering Students
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Author: Lawrence S. Brown, Tom Holme
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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1.20 Suppose that you are waiting at a corner for a bus. Three different routes pass this particular corner. You see buses pass by from the two routes that you are not interested in taking. When you say to yourself, “My bus must be next,” what type of reasoning (deductive or inductive) are you using? Explain your answer.
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