A Heuristic for Finding a Cat That Is Hiding Somewhere

question 45

Multiple Choice

A heuristic for finding a cat that is hiding somewhere in the house is

• A) to systematically search every room in the house.
• B) to first look in the places where the cat likes to hide.
• C) systematically searching every room and looking first where the cat likes to hide are equally fine heuristics
• D) none of these

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