Isolde Was Given a Batch of Her Mothers' Delicious Chocolate

question 11

Multiple Choice

Isolde was given a batch of her mothers' delicious chocolate chip cookies to bring to school. Upon opening the box, Isolde discovered that some of the cookies were bigger than others. Based on the findings from resource allocation studies, we would expect Isolde to

• A) distribute the cookies equally across everyone in the class.
• B) give bigger cookies to friends and smaller ones to nonfriends.
• C) give only the smaller cookies to other children.
• D) share the cookies only with children she did not know.
• E) let the children choose which cookie they wanted.

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Definitions:

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