Carl Vance, an employee in the Marketing Department, comes by your office looking worried.

"I was talking with Renee yesterday$$nothing official; we were both at the same bar, so we chatted for a bit$$and$,$ uh$,$ she said we're getting bought out. She didn't say who, she didn't say when, but I asked her and she said a merger is 'inevitable.$\text{'}$ Is that right? I mean, I know we were at the bar, and we had a beer or two, but she knows what she said and I know what I heard. Is it true?"

You tell Carl the truth$$that you're too busy for a conversation right now$$but he insists you get back to him soon or he'll be getting his resume in order.

$6$ of $11.$

Which of the following statements is an inference, information that can be gathered from the situation, rather than an assumption, a position taken without any proof, or a known fact?