Ms. Smoate tells her students that mammals are animals that are warm-blooded and nurse their young. She next points out that a cat is warm-blooded and nurses its young. Therefore a cat is a mammal. Ms. Smoate is teaching which of the following?

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Ms. Smoate is using deductive reasoning, which starts with a general statement or hypothesis and examines the possibilities to reach a specific, logical conclusion. In this case, she starts with the general characteristics of mammals and deduces that a cat, having those characteristics, must be a mammal.

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