Dane knows five people who have experienced difficulties with a certain appliance brand. when shopping for a new refrigerator with his partner, he will not consider purchasing this brand. in this example, dane has applied

reasoning by analogy

Explanation:

                    Reasoning by analogy is a type of reasoning where a comparison is made between something what is known and something new to reach a conclusion.

                    Analogies are devices used to compare two or more things and draw a conclusion or result based on the similarities or differences.

                   Thus when Dane went for purchasing a new refrigerator he uses reasoning by analogy to decide whether to buy that brand or not because he he knew five other people who have experienced difficulties with that particular appliance brand.

Thus Dane compares and try to draw a conclusion.

Hence the answer is "reasoning by analogy".

6.3%

explanation:

the acceptance rate for yale university is 6.3%. this means that only 6 percent of people who apply actually get accepted!