Compare the process of making inferences with finding context clues.?

Answer 1

I would say that making inferences involves using somewhat similar experiences from a broad range of life situations while context clues are taken from within the problem area or definition. I would be using inferences if a problem wanted me to calculate car speed and one of the answers was 300 ft/sec - which from my knowledge of cars is much too high. On the other hand, if the problem stated that cars in a race were going from 175 mph to 225 mph through a turn and wanted an estimate of the average, I would be using context information. Usually, of course the inference support data and the context is much more complicated than these simple examples.