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.