During the Apollo 13 mission, the ground engineers had to devise a new way of cleaning the capsule air supply using only the materials the astronauts had on board the space capsule. They were able to come up with a creative solution that helped the astronauts make it back safely. In solving this problem, the engineers:
a. were able to overcome functional fixedness
b. showed high levels of functional fixedness
c. demonstrated effective use of the availability heuristic
d. relied on anchoring and adjustment
A
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