A college newspaper runs an investigative story about school administrators who went on a Hawaiian junket paid for by a wealthy alumnus who has bid on a construction contract to build the new law school center. Key quotes in the story are then used in a big metropolitan newspaper story about the same situation, but the metropolitan newspaper reporters fail to credit the student reporters and pass off the quotes as their own reporting. It turns out that the students' story was wrong and that the administrators paid their own way to the convention.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.