Mayra Wants to Generate a Set of Anagrams for a Contest

question 203

Multiple Choice

Mayra wants to generate a set of anagrams for a contest in the campus paper. To generate the anagrams, she starts with the words that the contestants need to come up with to win the contest, and then scrambles the letters. In this case, Mayra's method of solving the problem is consistent with the problem-solving heuristic known as

• A) means-end analysis.
• B) searching for analogies.
• C) working backward.
• D) trial-and-error.

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