Determine whether the reasoning is an example of deductive or inductive reasoning. A movie has a person stranded on a tropical island. He approximates his distance from where the plane lost radio contact to be 400 miles​ (a radius), and uses the formula for the area of a​ circle, Area equals pi left parenthesis radius right parenthesis squared​, to determine that a search party would have to cover an area of over​ 500,000 square miles to look for him.

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