Nine-year-old Aleesa wants her father to play a video game with ...

[joblessjake]

Nine-year-old Aleesa wants her father to play a video game with her, but Dad tells her, Sorry, honey, I don't have time. There are dirty dishes in the kitchen sink, and the living room has to be dusted and vacuumed. I need to clean the house before Grandma and Grandpa come tonight. Aleesa thinks for a moment and then says, How about if I wash the dishes and do the dusting? That way, you'll have some time to play with me. Aleesa's approach to solving her problemconvincing Dad to play a video gamemost clearly reflects:
 
  a. brainstorming
  b. use of an analogy
  c. functional fixedness
  d. meansends analysis

Question 2

Which one of the following is the best example of someone using a heuristic (rather than an algorithm) in problem solving?
 
  a. Susan wants to know how long it will take her to drive from Phoenix to Los Angeles. She knows that the distance is 400 miles, and she figures she will average 50 miles an hour with stops, so she predicts the trip will take 8 hours.
  b. Vinnie has a round hot tub that is six feet in diameter; he wants to build a top to cover it. He remembers the formula for calculating the area of a circle and works out how many feet of lumber he needs.
  c. John wants to buy a computer. He compares prices at different computer stores and buys whichever model is least expensive.
  d. Marion can't think of a plot for the short story she needs to write. She breaks her task into smaller pieces: First she'll decide who the main character will be, then she'll think of a conflict for that character to experience, and finally she'll identify a reasonable resolution of that conflict.

[dominiqueenicolee]

Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

d

[joblessjake]

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[dominiqueenicolee]

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