What type of questions prompt you to make deductions based on given information?

Inference questions are designed to require you to draw logical conclusions based on the information provided. These questions present a set of premises or statements and ask you to deduce what must be true, given the information. Inferences go beyond the explicit claims made and require you to understand the relationships between the concepts and ideas presented.

For example, if a passage states that all cats are mammals and that Whiskers is a cat, the inference you could deduce is that Whiskers is a mammal, even though that conclusion is not directly stated. This exercise in logic and deduction is the hallmark of inference questions.

Other types of questions, while they may involve reasoning, do not focus specifically on deduction from provided information in the same way. Assumption questions ask you to identify unstated premises that must be true for an argument to hold. Fact-based questions focus on identifying explicit claims or information rather than deducing new conclusions. Argument-based questions usually evaluate or analyze the structure of an argument rather than require deductions based on the information given. Thus, inference questions specifically focus on deriving logical conclusions which makes them unique in this context.