NYC FREE NYC Civil Service Deductive and Inductive Reasoning Questions and Answers 2

Question 1

A city inspector notices that all three complaints filed this week involved restaurants on the same block.
She concludes that there may be a shared environmental hazard causing the violations.
This is an example of:

Accepted Answer

Inductive reasoning

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Deductive reasoning

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Circular reasoning

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Analogical reasoning

Question 2

All NYC civil service employees must complete ethics training. Marcus is an NYC civil service employee. Therefore, Marcus must complete ethics training. What type of reasoning is this?

Accepted Answer

Deductive reasoning

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Inductive reasoning

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Inductive generalization

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Abductive reasoning

Question 3

A supervisor reviews 10 employee timesheets and finds that 9 of them contain errors in the overtime column. She concludes that the overtime calculation instructions may be unclear. This reasoning is best described as:

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Inductive

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Deductive

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Formal

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Conclusive

Question 4

Study the pattern: 5, 10, 20, 40, ___. What is the next number?

Accepted Answer

80

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60

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70

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100

Question 5

If no government contracts are awarded without competitive bidding, and Contract X was awarded without competitive bidding, what must be true?

Accepted Answer

Contract X was not a government contract

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Contract X was properly awarded

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Contract X violated bidding rules

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More information is needed

Question 6

A clerk notices that absenteeism spikes every Monday following a holiday weekend. She predicts that next holiday Monday will also have high absenteeism. This prediction relies on:

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Inductive probability

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Deductive certainty

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Mathematical proof

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Legal precedent

A city inspector notices that all three complaints filed this week involved restaurants on the same block.She concludes that there may be a shared environmental hazard causing the violations.This is an example of:

A city inspector notices that all three complaints filed this week involved restaurants on the same block.
She concludes that there may be a shared environmental hazard causing the violations.
This is an example of: