Darlene gave a presentation on the relationship between sports and education. She made the claim, "Just as you can't succeed in sports without the support of a coach and team, you can't succeed in education without the support of your classmates and instructor." What type of reasoning did Darlene use?

a. Reasoning by analogy

b. Causal reasoning

c. Deductive reasoning

d. Inductive reasoning

Answer:a. Reasoning by analogy

Explanation:

Analogical reasoning is based on comparing systems that share commonly accepted similarities.

This reasoning then states that if there are these existing similarities then they might even be more other similarities within the compared systems.

In the case above sport is compared to education in the sense that in both a person requires support of other structures for one to succeed.