Multiple choice general knowledge math & puzzles

Guide is to direct as reduce is to

  1. decrease

  2. increase

  3. maintain

  4. preserve

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Explanation

A guide performs the action of directing (showing the way), just as the verb 'reduce' means to decrease (make smaller). The relationship is 'noun to its defining verb' - guide directs, reduce decreases.