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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Deduct or Deduce?

what isdifferance between deduct and deduce and when should each of them be used?
  

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To deduce is to use deductive reasoning; to deduct is to take away or subtract. Points will be deducted from your final score for any spelling errors. Police deduced from the evidence available that he had left the country three days before the event.

  • To deduce is to use deductive reasoning; to deduct is to take away or subtract.
  • Points will be deducted from your final score for any spelling errors.
  • Police deduced from the evidence available that he had left the country three days before the event.
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To deduce is to use deductive reasoning; to deduct is to take away or subtract.

Points will be deducted from your final score for any spelling errors.

Police deduced from the evidence available that he had left the country three days before the event.
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to deduce: sara didn t come yesterday I deduce she was ill

to deduct: to remove some thing from some thing larger:(substract)or to deduct one number from another(according to my comprehension : 4 - 8=4 this is the calculation of deducting)if i m wrong some one correct plz!

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