When people are solving a problem such as the Elves-and-Goblins problem in your textbook, they generally avoid
a. using bottom-up processing.
b. dividing a problem into subproblems.
c. increasing the difference between the current state and the goal state.
d. using the means-ends approach to solve the problem.
Ans: c
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