At first, people came through Tamara's gate at the fair in groups of two or three. Later, group size increased substantially. The same number of people went through Nick's gate, but in the opposite pattern—many large groups at first, then dwindling. Tamara estimated the crowd at 2,000, but Nick estimated 7,000 . The difference in their estimates can best be explained by:
a. the representativeness heuristic
b. the availability heuristic
c. the anchoring and adjustment heuristic
d. the working backward heuristic
C
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