Two Friends Are Caught Cheating on an Exam

question 117

Multiple Choice

Two friends are caught cheating on an exam.The professor talks to them separately and says to each that they can admit to cheating and go before the dean and say that their friend cheated,or they can keep quiet and their friend might go before the dean against them.The two friends are in a

• A) survivor's dilemma.
• B) prisoner's dilemma.
• C) cheater's dilemma.
• D) tragedy of the commons dilemma.

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