Which best describes the type of reasoning the excerpt uses?
feldman uses deductive reasoning because he works from a generalization to arrive at specific examples.
feldman uses deductive reasoning because he arrives at a broad generalization based on another generalization.
feldman uses inductive reasoning because he formulates a generalization based on specific examples.
feldman uses inductive reasoning because he formulates a generalization based mostly on experience.

the corecct answer is A. Feldman uses deductive reasoning because he works from a generalization to arrive at specific examples.

Explanation:

and this is the excerpt.

He also believes that employees further up the corporate ladder cheat more than those down below. He got this idea after delivering for years to one company spread out over three floors—an executive floor on top and two lower floors with sales, service, and administrative employees (Feldman wondered if perhaps the executives cheated out of an overdeveloped sense of entitlement. What he didn’t consider is that perhaps cheating was how they got to be executives.)

A

Explanation:

the correct answer is A feldman uses deductive reasoning because he works from a generalization to arrive at specific examples.

explanation:

the silver bells of the sleds are merry and keep time in the winter nights while the sky twinkles happily. the golden bells of weddings are delightful in their peaceful happiness, foretelling a rapturous future. meanwhile, the brazen alarm bells scream frightfully in the night, with a discordant and desperate sound. in their clamor, these bells convey terror, horror, and anger. finally, the iron bells are solemn and melancholy, while those in the church steeple are like ghouls who feel happiness. the king of the ghouls, who rings the bells, cheerfully keeps time with the moaning and groaning bells.

rudy is the nazi ideal, unfortunately for the nazis his ideal comes in the form of jesse the complete opposite of those who embrace the idea of white supremacy. over the course of the novel, rudy learns that he wants nothing to do with the hitler youth, and because of this his parents are forced to make a bargain; rudy's father is forced into the military, so that his son can remain home.   both liesel and hans influence that young man that rudy becomes. following han's example, rudy puts aside his own hunger to risk his life so that the jewish prisoners might have bread to eat.