Gracie was recently hired by a detective agency after rounds of pre-employment testing and interviews. The pre-employment testing showed that she had a high ability to gather information regarding crimes, filter out unwanted information, and draw the right conclusions to strengthen her case. We can say that the pre-employment tests revealed that Gracie is good at
A) verbal comprehension.
B) quantitative reasoning.
C) inductive reasoning.
D) spatial reasoning.
E) visualization.

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Inductive reasoning refers to the ability to consider several specific pieces of information and then reach a more general conclusion regarding how those pieces are related. Inductive reasoning is required of police detectives and crime scene investigators who must consider things like tire tracks, blood splatter patterns, fibers, and fingerprints to reach conclusions about perpetrators of crimes and causes of death.

Gracie Was Recently Hired by a Detective Agency After Rounds